But instead of that she let her eyes rest on him, full of love, and made no answer.

"It's come!" he thought in ecstasy.

" When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end--it's come! She loves me! She owns it!" "Then do this for me: never say such things to me, and let us be friends," she said in words; but her eyes spoke quite differently.

"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself.