It was evident that she was something coy and reticent, and would not allow me to come at present more close to her, even to the touching of her hand.

But that her heart was not in the denial was also evident in the glance from her glorious dark starry eyes.

These glances--veritable lightning flashes coming through her pronounced reserve--finished entirely any wavering there might be in my own purpose.

I was aware now to the full that my heart was quite subjugated.

I knew that I was in love--veritably so much in love as to feel that without this woman, be she what she might, by my side my future must be absolutely barren.
It was presently apparent that she did not mean to stay as long on this occasion as on the last.