'For indeed,' she added, as she
let her eyes fully meet his ardent gaze, 'I know you will help me to
do whatever may be His Will.
'He helping me,' said John Harewood; and there was a reverent silence
of untold peace and bliss, first interrupted by his long sigh of
infinite relief and joy, and then, as he looked and looked with all
his soul in his eyes, an exclamation, almost in spite of himself,
'You beautiful creature, you are mine indeed!'
Her colour deepened, but her lips moved into an odd little smile, out
of which came the words, 'Isn't that rather foolish?'
'I couldn't help it--I beg your pardon,' said he, reddening. 'You do
look so lovely! but indeed it is not the externals only, but what
looks through.'
'And that is what makes me afraid,' said Wilmet, as the dew gathered
on her eye-lashes. 'I don't think I'm so nice as you take me for.'
'Probably you don't,' he said, smiling.
'But just hear me,' she said, laying her hand on his, as if to
silence him. 'You ought to know what all the others would tell you if
they were not too kind. I know they all feel me strict, and managing
and domineering! Yes, it makes you laugh, but I really am.
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