"Good-bye, Giovanni."
"GOOD-BYE, HESTER."
They would meet again in the crowded saloons of Lord Alison's mansion, but this was to be their true farewell. Something in her tones, in her look, thrilled the young man. He gazed into her eyes and read her heart.
"Hester!"
"Giovanni!"
"But I must not," she said, at length; "I have promised to marry Lord Alison."
"And, Hester, it's a strange request; but you must promise me to marry no one but Lord Alison!"
"I know what you mean, Giovanni; I fear it must be so, now that my word is pledged. Oh, if we had only discovered sooner!"
"We meet again at the concert. Good-bye, Hester!"