"And now you must go home so soon!"
"I must, Ellie. My business has lingered on a great while, and it is quite time I should return. I expect to sail next week. Mrs. Gillespie is going with me; her husband stays behind till spring."
Ellen signed.
"I made a friend of a friend of yours whom I met in
Switzerland last summer M. Muller."
"M. Muller! did you! Oh, I am very glad! I am very glad you know him he is the best friend I have got here, after my father. I don't know what I should have done without him."
"I have heard him talk of you," said John, smiling.
"He has just come back; he was to be here this evening."
There was a pause again.
"It does not seem right to go home without you, Ellie," said her brother, then. "I think you belong to me more than to anybody."
"That is exactly what I think!" said Ellen, with one of her bright looks, and then bursting into tears; "I am very glad you think so too! I will always do whatever you tell me just as I used to no matter what anybody else says."