It was because I longed to be loved." "And to love." "Oh, yes.

I would be nothing without that.

But that, you know, is your delight,--or should be.

The other is mine.

And yet it is a delight to love you; to know that I may love you." "You mean that this is the realisation of your romance." "Yes; but it must not be the end of it, Adolphus.