The way Dick said `` sweetheart '' was perfectly lovely . I envied Aunt Tommy , and I wanted to keep on crying so that he would go on comforting me . `` And you 'll come back to see Aunt Tommy again ? '' I said . Dick 's face clouded over ; he got up and walked around the room several times before he said a word . Then he came and sat down beside me and explained it all to me , just as if I were grown up . `` Sweetheart , we 'll talk this all out . You see , it is this way . Your Aunt Bertha is the sweetest woman in the world . But I 'm only a poor minister and I have no right to ask her to share my life of hard work and self-denial . And even if I dared I know she would n't do it . She does n't care anything for me except as a friend . I never meant to tell her I cared for her but I could n't help going to Owlwood , even though I knew it was a weakness on my part . So now that I 'm out of the habit of going I think it would be wisest to stay out . It hurts dreadfully , but it would hurt worse after a while . Do n't you agree with me , Miss Elizabeth ? '' I thought hard and fast . If I were in Aunt Tommy 's place I might n't want a man to know I cried about him , but I was quite sure I 'd rather have him know than have him stay away because he did n't know . So I spoke right up . `` No , I do n't , Mr. Richmond ; Aunt Tommy does care -- you just ask her .
She cries every blessed night because you never come XXXXX Owlwood . ''
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