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"We shall be married in Basil's own church I can hardly eat or sleep for thinking of the joy and the triumph of it! There will be women there ready to eat their hearts with envy--I believe indeed, Ethel, that every woman in the church is in love with Basil"

"You have said that before, and I areat many of them are married and are in love with their own husbands; and the kind of girls who go to St Jude's are not the kind who yloves and parasols"

"I don't think you are pleased that I a to marry You must not be jealous of Basil I shall love you just the same"

"Under no conditions, Dora, would I allow jealousy to trouble e as you have loved me in the past I shall not expect it"

Passionate denials of this assertion, reminiscences of the past, assurances for the future followed, and Ethel accepted them without dispute and without faith But she understood that the ee at present; and that the details of the ed themselves constantly in the wonderful fact that Basil Stanhope loved her, and that so to be his wife This joyful certainty filled her heart and her comprehension, and she had a natural reluctance to subject it to the details of the social and religious ceres permitted others to participate in her joy, and she resented the idea For a time she wished to keep her lover in a world where no other thought ht of Dora

Ethel understood her friend's e arrived She felt that her presence was preventing Dora's absolute surrender of herself to thoughts of her lover, and all the way hoirl's infatuation, and wondered if it would be possible for her to fall into such a dotage of love for any man She answered this query positively--"No, if I should lose my heart, I shall not therefore loseherself of her deter lines she had often quoted to love-sick girls went laughing through her edies arebut loves and cradles"