Clara, I love you better than all the world put together." She now looked at him; but still she did not believe it.

It could not be that after all her boastings she should have made so gross a blunder.

"I hope you do love me," she said; "indeed, you are bound to do so, for you promised that you would be my brother." "But that will not satisfy me now, Clara.

Clara, I want to be your husband." "Will!" she exclaimed.
"Now you know it all; and if I have been too sudden, I must beg your pardon." "Oh, Will, forget that you have said this.

Do not go on until everything must be over between us." "Why should anything be over between us?
Why should it be wrong in me to love you ?" "What will papa say ?" "Mr.Amedroz knows all about it already, and has given me his consent.