"I cannot listen--I cannot." "You shall listen, for you have remembered me and have understood.
Voila!" he added, hastily catching her silver buckle from his bosom.
"This that you sent me, look where I have kept it--on my heart!" She drew back from him, her face in her hands.

Then suddenly she put them out as though to prevent him coming near her, and said: "Oh, no--no! You will spare me; I am an affianced wife." An appealing smile shone through her tears.

"Oh, will you not go ?" she begged.

"Or, will you not stay and forget what you have said?
We are little more than strangers; I scarcely know you; I--" "We are no strangers," he broke in.

"How can that be, when for years I have thought of you--you of me?
But I am content to wait, for my love shall win you yet.