“Yes, I can hear,” said Alvar, seeing the necessity, and leaning towards him.
“When there is no chance, you will tell me?”
“Yes.”
“But I must tell you about—her—a secret.”
“I will keep it. Some one you love?”
“It is Ruth; we are engaged. Does she know—this?”
Alvar’s surprise was intense; but he answered quietly,—
“I suppose that Virginia will have told her.”
“Let her know; it would be worse later. Write to her—you—when it is hopeless.”
“Yes,” said Alvar.