If we cannot trust each other without legal bonds, any union between us would be unjustified.' Suppressing the agitation which he felt, he awaited her answer.

They could still read each other's faces perfectly in a pale yellow to light from across the sea.

Rhoda's manifested an intense conflict.
'After all, you doubt of your love for me ?' said Barfoot quietly.
That was not her doubt.

She loved with passion, allowing herself to indulge the luxurious emotion as never yet.

She longed once more to feel his arms about her.