Mavis stood up slim and strong with a brave light in her wonderful eyes. "I promise!" she said simply, "I promise!"
"Sweetheart!" He rose also and kissed her, and then they walked slowly up the path, through the archway, and stopped again under the beech. "I shall return in seven days," said Gerald, anxious to go, yet loth to depart, "only be silent. Live as you have hitherto lived, and----"
"I can never do that, my dearest," she said, flushing, "the world is all changed. You are my world! you are my---- Oh!" she broke down.
Haskins folded her in his arms, and their lips met in one last long kiss. Then he left her, silently. That was true wisdom, for a single word might have detained him for ever in that enchanted garden.
[CHAPTER VIII.]
LEGAL ADVICE.
"It's nutty, but not what I call top hole straight!"
"Mr. Macandrew, I am consulting you professionally, so I must ask you to use the King's English!"
"It can't explain my feelings, Jerry--it can't indeed. What am I to say when you tell me that you have fallen in love in five minutes."
"You loved Charity when you first set eyes on her, Tod."