I have nothing down in that world which you have called civilization--nothing except the husks of murdered hopes, ambitions, and things that were once joys.

Here I have you to love, to fight for.
For you cannot tell me that I must not love you, even though I swear to live up to your laws of chivalry.

Unless I loved you as I do there would not be those laws." "Then you will do all this for me--even to the end--when you must sacrifice all of that for which you have struggled, and which you have saved ?" "Yes." "If that is so, then I trust you with my life and my honour.

It is all in your keeping--all." Her voice broke in a sob.

She snatched her hands from him, and with that sob still quivering on her lips she turned and ran swiftly to the little tent.