“You must know at once whether I prefer to return home with you or with Uncle Peabody?” she asked, faintly.
“Not at once,” he replied, leaning nearer to catch the low-spoken words—“not until you are strong enough to decide.”
Suddenly he felt both her arms about his neck, and in his ear she whispered, “Let me go with you, Jack; but not to Boston—take me to Fiesole!”
THE END
Transcriber’s Notes
A few missing quotation marks have been added.
Archaic and inconsistent spelling and hyphenation have been preserved.
On page 193 the original text is: “Because ‘beautiful paintings’ do not have husbands,” in the caption of the illustration the quote is: “do not possess husbands.” This has been preserved.