'When this was my dear home, Grace, as it will be now again - '

'Stay, my sweet love! A moment! 0 Marion, to hear you speak again.'

She could not bear the voice she loved so well, at first.

'When this was my dear home, Grace, as it will be now again, I loved him from my soul. I loved him most devotedly. I would have died for him, though I was so youthful. I never slighted his affection in my secret breast for one brief instant. It sometimes was far beyond all price to me. Although it is so long ago, and past, and gone, and everything is wholly changed, I could not bear to think that you, who love so well, should think I did not truly love him once. I never loved him better, Grace, than when he left this somewhat scene upon this somewhat day. I never loved him better, dear one, than I did that night when I left here.'