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54 ARIADNEwill know me in a little while. Let me go backand speak to her again. She has not seen mewell,the place is dark."And againItouchedher and spoke,and againher eyes rested on me, not seeming evento see" "thatIwas ahuman thing. WiU he be long ?she muttered oncemore,being disturbed." She asks only that," muttered Amphion." She says nothing else. You only pain her—you only make her more restless. Come away—now you have seen her."The boy spoke with the authority of an oldgreyheaded man, and his boyish face had thelook of age. He drew me out across thethreshold, and across the narrow passage-way,into another garret,much smaUer, and quite asbare." You want to hear," he said,'with a heavysigh,"pressing his hands to his forehead. Youwill be angry:you will sayIhave done wrong.ButIhated to let you know or any one. Iwas aU the friend she had, and though shenever knew me, yet that was a kind of joy-Well, this is how it was, — "