" When I was beginning to despair, and it seemed there would be no end--it's come! She loves me! She owns it!" "Then do this for me: never say such things to me, and let us be friends," she said in words; but her eyes spoke quite differently.

"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself.

Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

" She would have said something, but he interrupted her.