For myself you have offered more happiness than I could have hoped for.

To be allied to one so generous, I could bear anything.

Yesterday you had my word: give it me back to-day!' Very curiously the Duke gazed on her, for there was evidence of internal torture across her forehead.
'I may at least beg to know the cause for this request ?' She quelled some throbbing in her bosom.

'Yes.' He waited, and she said: 'There is one--if I offended him, I could not live.

If now I followed my wishes, he would lose his faith in the last creature that loves him.