head. "I have been afraid, once or twice," she said.

"So you send me away? That seems to me neither very brave nor very
wise. Will there be less danger at Kelstein?"

Her mother started. "Does _he_ know of your going? You don't tell
me he means to visit you there?"

"Forgive me, dearest mother, but your first question is a little
foolish--eh?" Hetty laughed and quoted:

"But if she whom Love doth honour
Be conceal'd from the day--
Set a thousand guards upon her,
Love will find out the way."

She put up her chin defiantly.

"I wish, child, you would tell me if--if this is much to you," said
Mrs. Wesley wistfully, with a sudden craving to put her arms around
her daughter and have her confidence.

Hetty hesitated for a fatal moment, then laughed again. "I am not a
child precisely; and we read one another, dear, much better than we
allow. Your second question you have no right to ask. You are
sending me away--"

"No right, Hetty?"

"You are sending me away," Hetty repeated, and seemed to be