Your mother, Edith--and"-- "Richard Clyde," he added, with a smile, and that truth-searching glance which often brought unbidden words to my lips.
"Yes; I have perfect reliance in his friendship." "And in his love," he added; "why not finish the sentence ?" "Because I have no right to betray his confidence,--even supposing your assertion to be true.

I have spoken of the only feeling, whose existence I am willing to admit, and even that was drawn from me.

What if _I_ turn inquisitor ?" said I, suddenly emboldened to look in his face.

"Have _you_, who have seen so much more of life, experienced the chilling influences which you deprecate for me ?" "I am naturally suspicious and distrustful," he answered.

"Have you never been told so ?" "If I have, it required your own assertion to make me believe it." "Do you not see the shadow on my brow?
It has been there since my cradle hours.