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"I pass there every day," she said

I thanked her--

"I hope you did not hurry back to your work--I can't bear to think that

perhaps you would have wished to remain at home now"

"No, it does not matter"--There was an infinite weariness in her

tone--A hopeless flatness I had never heard before, it moved me so that

I blurted out--

"Oh! I have felt so anxious, and so sorry--I saw you in the Bois two

Sundays ago in the thunder storht you would cross to offer you the carriage to return in, but I

ht cold then?"

There was a sob in her voice--

"Yes--will you--would you an work"

"Forgive me--I only want you to know that I' in the world I could do for you--would you not let

me?"

"I appreciate your wish--it is kind of you--but there is nothing--You

were going to begin the last chapter over again--Here is the old one--I

will take off my hat while you look at it," and she handed it tobunch of