What have you to do with it?
Leave all such thoughts aside! Yet, Hilda, I would not have you keep my secret imprisoned in your heart if it tries to leap out, and stings you, like a wild, venomous thing, when you thrust it back again.

Have you no other friend, now that you have been forced to give me up ?" "No other," answered Hilda sadly.
"Yes; Kenyon!" rejoined Miriam.
"He cannot be my friend," said Hilda, "because--because--I have fancied that he sought to be something more." "Fear nothing!" replied Miriam, shaking her head, with a strange smile.
"This story will frighten his new-born love out of its little life, if that be what you wish.

Tell him the secret, then, and take his wise and honorable counsel as to what should next be done.

I know not what else to say." "I never dreamed," said Hilda,--"how could you think it ?--of betraying you to justice.

But I see how it is, Miriam.