If hearts are to be awakened and won, I think it might be done that way--with such pleasant phrases--given always time." Presently she withdrew her hands and slipped away from me in the dark.
"Be careful," said I, "or you will slip overboard." "I mean to presently." "Then--must I go so soon ?" She did not answer.

Once I thought I heard her moving softly, but the sound came from the wrong direction.
"Lois!" No reply.
"Lois!" I repeated uneasily.
There was a ripple in the pool, silence, then somewhere in the darkness a faint splash.
"Good Lord!" said I."Have you fallen in ?" "Not fallen in.

But I am truly in, Euan.

I couldn't endure it any longer; and you didn't seem to want to go....

So please remain where you now are." "Do you mean to say----" I began incredulously.
And, "Yes, I do!" she said, defiant.