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This ive what happened"

He snatched the chalk with nervous, tre it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase,

"I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to

love you"

She glanced at him with a smile that did not waver

"I understand," she said in a whisper

He sat down and wrote a long phrase She understood it all, and

without asking him, "Is it this?" took the chalk and at once

answered

For a long while he could not understand what she had written,

and often looked into her eyes He was stupefied with happiness

He could not supply the word she hadwith happiness, he saw all he needed to know And

he wrote three letters But he had hardly finished writing when

she read them over her arm, and herself finished and wrote the

answer, "Yes"

"You're playing _secrétaire_?" said the old prince "But weif you want to be in tiot up and escorted Kitty to the door

In their conversation everything had been said; it had been said

that she loved him, and that she would tell her father and