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"Who told you ere intimate, Maximilian?"

"No one, but you appeared to be so Froether, one would have thought you were two school-girls telling your secrets to each other"

"We were having a confidential conversation," returned Valentine; "she ning to e with M de Morcerf; and I, on the other hand, was confessing to her horetched itM d'Epinay"

"Dear Valentine!"

"That will account to you for the unreserved enie, as in speaking of the hts involuntarily reverted to hiood you are to say so, Valentine! You possess a quality which can never belong to Madelars It is that indefinable charm which is to a woman what perfume is to the flower and flavor to the fruit, for the beauty of either is not the only quality we seek"

"It is your love which ht"

"No, Valentine, I assure you such is not the case I was observing you both when you alking in the garden, and, onto depreciate the beauty of Madelars, I cannot understand how any man can really love her"

"The fact is, Maximilian, that I was there, andyou unjust in your comparison"

"No; but tell ested by certain ideas passing in lars"-"I dare say it is so to say It only proves how little indulgence we may expect from your sex," interrupted Valentine

"You cannot, at least, deny that you are very harsh judges of each other"

"If we are so, it is because we generally judge under the influence of excitelars object to thisanother?"

"I told you I was not on terirls tell each other secrets without being particularly intimate; own, now, that you did question her on the subject Ah, I see you are s"

"If you are already aware of the conversation that passed, the wooden partition which interposed between us and you has proved but a slight security"