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"Indeed, it is not bad," she said--"You ry with herself for having hurt me--and that

I could havein ht--" I replied, but perhaps ed--for she went on so kindly

"You know a great deal about the subject of course--but I feel the

chapters want condensing--May I tell you just where?"

I felt that the thing did not interest me any more, one way or another,

it was just a ridiculous non-essential-- I saw it all in a new

perspective--but I was glad she seeh for aseeood of anything?--the ainst the cushion of my chair in

weariness--I felt the soft silk and shut ain, her voice was full of sympathy--and was it

remorse--?

"I would like to help you to take interest in it--again--won't you let

rateful that she did not say she was sorry she had hurt me--that

I could not have stood--

I openednearer to o to sleep and have done

with it all It was as if the fabric of ood of you," I answered politely--"Yes--say what you

think"

Her tact is iht into the subject without