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Your father's wholesome, hearty nature should teach us
to banish every morbid tendency. Let your heart grow as light as
it will, my friend. Your natural impulses will not lead you
astray. Good-night."
"You feel sure of that?" she asked, giving him a hand that
fluttered in his, and looking at him with a soft fire in her eyes.
"Oh, Helen, how distractingly beautiful you are! You are blooming
again like your Jack-roses when the second growth pushes them into
flower. There; I must go. If I had a stone in my breast instead of
a heart--Good-night. I won't be weak again."


CHAPTER VI
MORE THAN REWARD

Helen Kemble's character was simple and direct She was one who
lived vividly in the passing hour, and had a greater capacity for
deep emotions than for retaining them. The reputation for
constancy is sometimes won by those incapable of strong
convictions. A scratch upon a rock remains in all its sharpness,
while the furrow that has gone deep into the heart of a field is
eventually almost hidden by a new flowering growth.


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