We must see to it that the world does not judge us entirely by our past." She was very cool about it, he thought,--and confident.
"As I said before, Anne, I see no occasion to--" "Very well," she interrupted.

"I beg your pardon.

You asked me to see you to-night.

What is it that you wish to say to me ?" He leaned forward in the chair, his elbows on the arms of it, and regarded her fixedly.

"Has my grandfather ever appealed to you to--to--" He stopped, for she had turned deathly pale; she closed her eyes tightly as if to shut out some visible horror; a perceptible shudder ran through her slender body.