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 that it would be perfectly easy to drop them, since I kept on feeling them. I didn't want you to condemn me."

The little girl patted her hand softly.

"But I see now," went on Marjorie, "that I really didn't have any excuse at all; and that the reason why it was so hard to get rid of the bonds, was because I made it hard by trying to analyze them, and trace out and explain what they had to do with Sequence,—when there really were no bonds—and no Sequence,"—and then, pressing her cheek close to that of the little girl, "Oh, you have helped me so much!"

"How?" asked the little girl, smiling. "You seem to have reasoned all this out by yourself."

"You've helped me by love, and by knowing the truth all the time that I have been talking, and by letting me feel that you care,"—and then, stretching her arms wide;—"Oh, the bonds are all gone—all, all gone!—Oh, I am so glad!"

"What are you going to do now?"