"Love can only mean that."
"Ah, my darling! how sweet you are! You wouldn't care for the admiration of other men, Pam?"
"Only for one."
"It is hard to be wise, Pam, when I am with you. You are too sweet. It is fortunate I am going."
"When you come back it will be different."
"Yes; you will have to make up to me for my prudence all these months. I have been good, Pam; I have never asked you for a kiss."
"Yes, you have been good."
"And you, you are a girl in ten thousand. You have never asked me what stood between us—a shadowy barrier, Pam, but even that must go before I claim you, my queen. When I come back, Pam! Ah, when I come back!"
"Here is Molly," said Pam, in a low voice, as her sister entered the room.
END OF CHAPTER SIX.