In Her Selfless Mood

he believed his victory won, “ that doesn’t make any difference to me—you know it doesn’t, sweetest. If you love me that is enoug .”

But Kilmeny only shook her head again. There was a very determined look on her pale face. She wrote,

“ No, it is not enough. It would be doing you a great wrong to marry you when I cannot speak, and I will not do it because I love you too much to do any— thing that would harm you. Your world would think you had done a very foolish thing and it would be right. I have thought it all over many times since some- thing Aunt Janet said made me under- stand, and I know I am doing right. I am sorry I did not understand sooner, before you had learned to care so much.”

“ Kilmeny, darling, you have taken a very absurd fancy into that dear black head of yours. Don’t you know that you will make me miserably unhappy all my life if you will not be my wife? ”

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