Like my heart?”

“Why is this?” I heard; “My note—

Did it miscarry?—Would you thwart me now—

Or, though my gifts could aid them, do they wish

No help from me?—My heart was fix’d on it.”

“On my cause,” breathed I. “Did you never think

That work with them would make you work with me?”

“Why think of that?” she ask’d.—“Enough to know

I sought my own work here.”

“Why, Edith, friend,”