"If she be true to him, I hope he will be true to her," said Marion, with true feminine excitement.
"I only fear that he will be too true."
"No, no;—that cannot be. Even though he suffer let him be true. You may be sure I will not mention it,—to him, or to any one. I like him so well that I do hope he may not suffer much." From that time she found herself able to regard George Roden as a real friend, and to talk to him as though there need be no cause for dreading an intimacy. With an engaged man a girl may suffer herself to be intimate.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE WALK BACK TO HENDON.
"I was here a little early," said Hampstead when his friend came in, "and I found your mother just going to church,—with a friend."
"Marion Fay."
"Yes, Miss Fay."
"She is the daughter of a Quaker who lives a few doors off. But though she is a Quaker she goes to church as well. I envy the tone of mind of those who are able to find a comfort in pouring themselves out in gratitude to the great Unknown God."