A PAIR OF BLUE
'
How
You
are
you
EYES.
morning, Elfride ?
this
look no better for your lono; nio^ht's
rest'
She appeared
at the
door shortly
after,
took his offered arm, and together they
walked slowly down the gravel path
lead-
ing to the river and away under the trees.
Her
resolution, sustained during the last
fifteen hours,
truth,
had been
to tell
him the whole
and now the moment had come.
Step by step they advanced, and
still
They were nearly
she did not speak.
the end of the walk,
at
when Knight broke the
silence. '
Well, what
the confession, Elfride ?*
is
She paused a moment, drew a long breath '
you
and
I told
this is
you one day
to understand
fancy you thought teen I
my
was
what she
said
— or rather
—what was not me
mean
to
next birthday, but
it
I
I
gave
true.
I
was nine-
was
my
last
nineteen.'
The moment had been
too
much
for her.
