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I am very ignorant!"
"Ignorant!" and he swept aside with a caressing touch the clustering
hair from her broad, noble brow. "My darling, you possess the greatest
wisdom--the wisdom of innocence. I would not change it for all the
learning of the sagest philosophers!"
"You really mean that?" she asked half timidly.
"I really mean that!" he answered fondly. "Little sceptic! As if I would
ever say anything to you that I did _not_ mean! I shall be glad when
we're out of London and back at the Manor--then I shall have you all to
myself again--for a time, at least."
She raised her eyes full of sudden joy,--all traces of her former
depression had disappeared.
"And _I_ shall have _you_!" she said gladly. "And we shall not
disappoint Lady Winsleigh to-night, Philip--I am not tired--and I shall
be pleased to go to the theatre."
"All right!" responded Philip cheerfully. "So let it be! Only I don't
believe you'll like the piece,--though it certainly won't make you cry.
Yet I doubt if it will make you laugh, either.


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