“I cannot answer such a question on the sudden,” she said.  “Give me till to-morrow, Herbert, and then I will make you a reply;” whereupon she left him, and he stood alone in the room, having done the deed on which he had been meditating for the last two years.  About half an hour afterwards he met her on the stairs as he was going to his chamber.  “May I speak to your father about this,” he said, hardly stopping her as he asked the question.  “Oh yes; surely,” she answered; and then again they parted.  To him this last-accorded............