el," says Joyce, laughing rather
nervously. She is still a little shy with Felix. "He doesn't trust her."

"No." He has seated himself and now draws her down beside him. "You were
reading?" he says.

"Yes."

"To Tommy?"

"Yes," laughing more naturally this time.

"Tommy is a more learned person than one would have supposed. Is this
the sort of thing he likes?" pointing to Nydia's exquisite song.

"I am afraid not, though he would insist upon my reading it. The earwig
was evidently far more engrossing as a subject than either the wind or
the rose."

"And yet--" he has his arm round her now, and is reading the poem over
her shoulder.

"You are my Rose," says he, softly. "And you--do you love but one?"

She makes a little mute gesture that might signify anything or nothing
to the uninitiated, but to him is instinct with a most happy meaning.

"Am I that one, darling?"

She makes the same little silent movement again, but this time she adds
to it by casting a swift glance upward at him from under her lowered
lids.

"Make me sure of it," entreated he almost in a whisper. He leans over
her, lower, lower still. With a little tremulous laugh, dangerously akin
to tears, she raises her soft palm to his cheek and tries to press
him--from her. But he holds her fast.

"Make me sure!" he says again. There is a last faint hesitation on her
part, and then--their lips meet.

"I have doubted always--always a little--ever since that night down by
the river," says he, "but now----"

"Oh, no! You must not doubt me again!" says she with tears in her eyes.

THE END.

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