"'Never!'
"'Ah, yes; and when that change comes—when you are brilliant, careless, a beautiful coquette, perhaps we can meet again, and play with the foam of life pleasantly, as it is tossed to our feet by the waves of society; but deep waters are treacherous; we must not trust to them.'
"'You talk strangely,' I said, feeling an angry fire kindling against him in my bosom.
"'I talk honestly, as you will admit some day.'
"I turned from him, angry with the tone of protection and superiority which he had assumed. Surely I was no school-girl to be thus adroitly put upon my good behavior.
"'You are angry with me?'
"'Yes; I have cause. You seem to speak from premises which I do not understand. What have I done that you should lecture me so?'
"My anger seemed to amuse him. His eyes flashed, and he laughed a low, sweet laugh, that the rippling wind carried off in its murmurs.
"'What have you done, child? Why, wandered off here, at the peril of your health, when you should have been quietly sleeping!'
"'But you have done the same thing!'