“Do you remember what you are to say to Boyd if he seems in any wise to think he has met you elsewhere?”

“I can avoid a lie and deal with him,” she said with calm contempt. “But there is not a chance he’d know me in my powder,”

There was a silence. Then the unseen water rippled and splashed.

“Poor Euan!” she said. “I wish you might dare swim here in this heavenly place with me. But we are not god and goddess, and the fabled age is vanished� . Good-night, dear lad� . And one thing more� . All you are to me — all you have done for me — don’t you understand that I could not take it from you unless, in my secret heart, I knew that one day I must be to you all you desire — and all I, too, shall learn to wish for?”