Will you not be generous and bear with me, strengthen me to withstand anything that may be said hereafter ?" "As God's my witness, I have told you true in all," he answered solemnly.
She sank her head to his shoulder.

She was weeping softly, overwrought by this climax to all that in silence and in secret she had suffered since he had come a-wooing her.
"Then," she said, "I believe you acted rightly.

I believe with you that no man of honour could have acted otherwise.

I must believe you, Noll, for did I not, then I could believe in naught and hope for naught.

You are as a fire that has seized upon the better part of me and consumed it all to ashes that you may hold it in your heart.