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'Oh yes, you do,' insisted Elfride

'Perhaps, for your eyes'

'What of theht answer What ofto be ood'

'Come, Stephen, I won't have that What did you love ht have been for your ht it was a passable h----'

'That's not very co'

'With a pretty pout and sweet lips; but actually, nothing s out of your head as you go on, there's a dear Stephen Nohat--did--you--love--h I a but wander away froain; but I am not sure Or your hands and arms, that they eclipsed all other hands and arms; or your feet, that they played about under your dress like little ue, that it was of a dear delicate tone But I aether sure'

'Ah, that's pretty to say; but I don't care for your love, if itsure, and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was, you know, Stephen' (at this a stealthy laugh and frisky look into his face), 'when you said to yourself, "I'll certainly love that young lady"'

'I never said it'

'When you said to yourself, then, "I never will love that young lady"'

'I didn't say that, either'

'Then was it, "I suppose Ilady?"'

'No'

'What, then?'

''Twas --not so definite'

'Tell ht not to think about you if I loved you truly'

'Ah, that I don't understand There's no getting it out of you And I'll not ask you ever any more--never more--to say out of the deep reality of your heart what you loved me for'

'Sweet tantalizer, what's the use? It co: That at one time I had never seen you, and I didn't love you; that then I saw you, and I did love you Is that enough?'

'Yes; I will make it doI know, I think, what I love you for You are nice-looking, of course; but I didn't entle'