A Lover and His Lass
to them what I want to say it will be all right for us to meet here or anywhere.”
She shook her head.
“ N 0,” she wrote, “ Uncle Thomas and Aunt Janet will tell you to go away and never come back. And they will never let me come here any more. Since it is not right to meet you I will not come, but it is no use to think of going to them. I did not tell them about you because I knew that they would forbid me to see you, but I am sorry, since it is so wrong.”
“ You must take me to them,” said Eric firmly. “ I am quite sure that things will not be as you fear when they hear what I have to say.”
Uncomforted, she wrote forlornly,
“ I must do it, since you insist, but I am sure it will be no use. I cannot take you to—night because they are away. They. went to the store at Radnor. But I will take you to-morrow night; and after that I shall not see you any more.”
Two great tears brimmed over in her
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