"You are the only relative I have living, except my mother, and you will try and not be distant and cold with me?"
"Yes, I will try." But in the tone there was more than doubt.
"And you will call me John or Jack?"
"Oh!--no--no--no!" She slipped from her chair and knelt close to where he stood.
"Are you faint?" he cried, bending over her anxiously.
"I am better now," she said, rising.
Unknown to him she had stooped and kissed his hand.