"I should like to think this is not a parting, Miss Arundel. May I, do you think, come and call upon you when I return to town?"
"I have no doubt papa would be pleased, if dear mamma is well enough," answered Nellie, hardly knowing what she ought to say.
"I shall come then. One does not make friends to lose them directly; and I hope we have become friends?"
He looked in her face, so pale and sorrowful; and then he remembered the face he had looked upon in the water yesterday.
Nellie remembered too, and a faint colour overspread her features.
"You saved my life," she said gently and gravely; "I can never forget that."
"Nor I," he answered; and both were silent.
"Here's the train," said Maude.
"Good-bye," said Wilmot, taking her hand.
"Good-bye," said Nellie, "good-bye, dear Maude."