I'll tell you what I should like--should like so much!" she wrote the initial letters, i, y, c, f, a, f, w, h.

This meant, "If you could forget and forgive what happened.

" He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.

" She glanced at him with a smile that did not waver.

"I understand," she said in a whisper.