If we regard each other as married, why, we _are_ married.

I am no Quixote, hoping to convert the world.

It is between you and me--our own sense of what is reasonable and dignified.' 'But you would not make it a mere deception ?' 'Mary would of course be told, and any one else you like.' She believed him entirely serious.

Another woman might have suspected that he was merely trying her courage, either to assure himself of her love or to gratify his vanity.

But Rhoda's idealism enabled her to take him literally.