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'No; not next month' 'The next?' 'No' 'Dece!' He was about to imprint a kiss upon her pale, cold mouth, but she hastily covered it with her hand

'Don't kiss ly

'Why?' 'We are too near God' He gave a sudden start, and his face flushed She had spoken so eh the hollow building fro to say!' he exclaimed; 'surely a pure kiss is not inappropriate to the place!' 'No,' she replied, with a swelling heart; 'I don't knohy I burst out so--I can't tell what has coiveyou? How shall I say "No"

without losing the pleasure of saying "Yes?"' He was hiain

'I don't know,' she absently murmured

'I'll say "Yes,"' he answered daintily 'It is sweeter to fancy we are forgiven, than to think we have not sinned; and you shall have the sweetness without the need' She did not reply, and they moved away The church was nearly dark now, and melancholy in the extreme She stood beside hiave her, and wound her way out of the churchyard with hireatonly on indifferent subjects

'Christ at the end of the shrubbery

'I meant Old Christmas Day,' she said evasively

'H' to the words' 'No; but I should like it best if it could not be till then?' It seee to the utht longer still; but never mind Old Christmas Day' 9 THE ELEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER 'There It will be on a Friday!' She sat upon a little footstool gazing intently into the fire It was the afternoon of the day following that of the steward's successful solicitation of her hand

'I wonder if it would be proper in me to run across the park and tell hi to her feet, looking at her hat lying near, and then out of the ards the Old House Proper or not, she felt that she h, as she herself owned, unfounded impression the coincidence had occasioned She left the house directly, and went to search for him