“Well,” he said: “shall we begin to speak good-bye?”

“O, no! the briefest parting. Must it not be so?”

“’Tis for you to say.”

“I say it then. Bonbec?”

“Good-bye, lady!”

“One moment. There was something—one last thing I had to say. What was it? It has slipped my mind.”

“Consider on it, while I hold you.”

“It will come in a minute——”

“Or ten, or twenty.”

“No; you must go. How prettily your hair grows from your forehead.”