And I will smile
triumphantly and answer them 'Yes, for he loved me, and he is mine and I
am his forever and forever!'"

"It would be beautiful! We could not come together in this world; but to
be united for all eternity on the threshold of the next----"

"There! Say no more about it, for it's all arranged anyhow. The Father
has been persuaded to read the service, and the Prime Minister is to
bring the Archbishop's license, and it's to be to-day--this
evening--and--and I'm not the first woman who has settled everything
herself!"

Then she began to laugh, and he laughed with her, and they laughed
together in spite of his weakness and pain. At the next moment she was
gone like a gleam of sunshine before a cloud, and Mrs. Callender had come
back to the bedside, tying up the strings of her old-fashioned bonnet.

"She's gold, laddie, that's what yon Glory is--just gold!"

"Aye, tried in the fire and tested," he replied, and then the back of his
head began to throb fiercely.

Glory had fled out of the room to cry, and Mrs. Callender joined her on
the landing. "I maun awa', lassie. I'd like fine to stop wi' ye, but I
can't. It minds me of the time my Alec left me, and that's forty lang
years the day, but he seems to have been with me ever syne."

* * * * *

"Where's Glory?"

"She's coming, Father," said Aggie, and at the sound of her name Glory
wiped her eyes and returned.

"And was it by my being lost that you came here to Westminster and found
me?"

"Yes, and myself as well."

"And I thought my life had been wasted! When one thinks of God's designs
one feels humble--humble as the grass at one's feet----But are you sure
you will never regret?"

"Never!"

"Nor look back?"

She tossed her head again. "Call me Mrs. Lot at once, and have done with
it."

"It's wonderful! What a glorious work is before you, Glory! You'll take
it up where I have left it, and carry it on and on. You are nobler than I
am, and stronger, far stronger, and purer and braver. And haven't I said
all along that what the world wants now is a great woman? I had the pith
of it all, though I saw the true light--but I was not worthy. I had
sinned and fallen, and didn't know my own heart, and was not fit to enter
into the promised land. It is something, nevertheless, that I see it a
long way off. And if I have been taken up to Sinai and heard the thunders
of the everlasting law----"

"Hush, dear! Somebody is c