The Ghost of Guir House

"Myself!" shouted he in amazement. "Do you mean to say that I should

oppose my own marriage with the girl I love?"

"You might," she answered demurely, casting a side glance up at him,

and allowing the very faintest, saddest kind of smile to rest for an

instant upon her face.

"Well!" said Paul, "I do not suppose you will explain what you mean,

but it would be only natural that I should like to know."

"I only mean," she replied, resuming her meditative attitude, "that

you do not know me; that you neither know who nor what I am. If I did

not love you, I might deceive and entrap you, but not under the

circumstances."

Later they returned to the house.