You--" She came to him and put her hands upon his arm.

"You remember," she said, with a touch of her old gaiety, and with an inimitable grace, "what good friends we were that first day we met?
Let us be the same now--for this time at least.

Will you not grant me this for to-day ?" "And to-morrow ?" he asked, inwardly determining to stay in the port of New York and to carry her off as his wife; but, unlike Bucklaw, with her consent.
At that moment the governor returned, and Iberville's question was never answered.

Nor did he dine at Government House, for word came secretly that English ships were coming from Boston to capture him.

He had, therefore, no other resource but to sail out and push on for Quebec.
He would not peril the lives of his men merely to follow his will with Jessica.
What might have occurred had he stayed is not easy to say--fortunes turn on strange trifles.