in to
grow weary."

"Don't you believe what I have just told you?" she demanded.

They were near the further end of the Quai where the crowd was thinnest
and the play of moonbeam and shadow most alluring. He stopped and looked
long upon the shining water, and then long upon her face.

"Yes," he said at last, "I do believe." He held out his hand, "I do
believe now, but I must tell you that truly if I had been of a
'_temperament jaloux_,' I would have been very angry this night.
Yes,--of a surety."

She looked away, with an impulse to smile, and her heart was
sufficiently eased of its burden to allow her to do so.

"Shall we go to the hotel now?" she asked after a moment.

"But you have not given me your hand?"

She put her hand in his, and he pressed it warmly, and then drew it
within his arm as they turned to retrace their steps.

"I like better to walk alone," she said, freeing herself.

"You are, perhaps, still angry?" he inquired anxiously.

"No, but I can walk easier alone. And I want you to tell me now why you
are not _en route_ North, instead of staying here in Zurich."

"But I have been North," he said eagerly; "I have been this day to
Aarburg."

"To Aarburg!--Where is that?"

"Wait, I will make all plain to you," he looked down upon her with the
smile that always proclaimed a complete declaration of peace, "it all
went like this: I see so plain that I make you to leave before you like,
that I am glad to go away and so make you quite free. It came to my head
like this,--I wanted to know something and by looking at your face and
saying that I must go to Leipsic for some one there, I see all that I
wish to know--"

"What did you see?" Rosina interrupted.

"I see plainly that you think it is some lady--"

"I did not think any such a thing!" she cried hotly.

He laughed and tossed his head.

"And so as I really should go to Leipsic I take the train and go, and
then on the train I think why am I gone, and when I think again, I feel
to leave the train at Aarburg and telegraph, and when the answer come
that you are still here, I feel very strongly to return at once, and so
I do."

Rosina looked up with a smile, and, meeting his eyes, was suddenly
overcome with a fear, vague and undefined, it is true, but not the less
real, as to whether she had been wise in bringing about this most
complete reconciliation.

"But you must still go to Leipsic?" she asked presently.

"Yes, after a little."

"I