"At last she extended her hand. For the first time I wished to take her in my arms and kiss her. I _did_ kiss her hand many times.
"'Some day we shall be friends again,' she said, 'when you have had time to read my actions and motives in a true light, and not so horribly to misinterpret them. Time may give you the right key to all. Then, perhaps, you will comprehend me, and then we shall be reconciled.'
"Farewell drops rolled slow down her cheeks. She wiped them away.

"At last she extended her hand. For the first time I wished to take her in my arms and kiss her. I did kiss her hand many times.
"'Some day we shall be friends again,' she said, 'when you have had time to read my actions in a true light, and not so horribly to misinterpret them. Time may give you the right key to all.'
"Drops rolled slow down her cheeks. She wiped them away.
