On the strength of it I rebuilt my home and remodelled these premises.

Then I saw you, and from that day I worked early and late.

I lost you and I never stopped until I found you; and I would have courted and won you, but the fates intervened and here you are! So it's my delight to court and win you now.

If you knew the difference between having a dream that stirred the least fibre of your being and facing the world in a demand for realization of it, and then finding what you coveted in the palm of your hand, as it were, you would know what is in my heart, and why expression of some kind is necessary to me just now, and why I'll explode if it is denied.

It will lower the tension, if you will accept this as a matter of fact; as if you rather expected and liked it, if you can." The Harvester set his finger on the spring.
"Don't!" she said.