I was just going to tell him so when he began to give me up, and it evidently gave him so much pleasure to renounce me nobly in your favor that I let him have it his own way, as the result was the same.

My great dread, until he came, was that you had not spoken.

I had been expecting him all the previous evening.

Oh, Charles, Charles! I waited and watched for his coming as I had never done before.

Your silence was the only thing I feared, because it was the only thing that could have come between us." "God forgive me! I meant at first to say nothing." "Only at first," said Ruth, gently; and they walked on in silence.
The sun had set.