"And he will come here to see you now?"
"Yes, but my father must not know it."
"I thought you were always so against anything being done unknown to our parents. When I wanted to write good-bye to Teddy Bowen you would not let me."
"I expected you to remind me of this, and at present I can give you no explanation. But I tell you positively that I am doing right. Can you take my word for it?"
"I believe in you, Agnes, as if you were the Bible. I know you will only do right."
"All that you see or hear or are told about this person must be to you as if you had dreamed a dream, and you must forget that you ever had it."
"I have said that I would be faithful. Darling Agnes, you know that you may trust me."
"Just suppose that my friend should be seen, and that my father should be told," she was silent a moment in consideration of such an event, and Maria impulsively continued:
"In that case I would say it was my friend."
"That would not be the truth."