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She strained his hands to her as though afraid he would slip from her

clasp "All that is ideal so soon hardens I can not bear to think of

your changing"

Bennington leaned forward and their lips ive him," he

entler readers will be

able to say

Ah, the delicious throbbing silence after the first kiss!

"What was your decision that afternoon on the Rock, Ben? You never told

hter tone, "Would you have taken hed with faint ," he said in his

turn "Supposing I had decided that, even though I loved you, I ive you up because of my duty to my family--suppose that, I say--what

would you have done? Would your love forthat

you would have finally confessed to me the fact that the Lawtons were

not your parents? Or would you have thrown ht I did not love you enough to take you for yourself?"

She considered the matter seriously for some little time

"Ben, I don't know," she confessed at last frankly "I can't tell"