And I ask.

I know what I offer.

Will you take it ?" "Yes," she said.
He rose, blindly.

She stood up, pale, wide-eyed, confronting him, stammering out the bargain: "I take all--all! every virtue, every vice of you.

I give all--all! all I have been, all I am, all I shall be! Is that enough?
Oh, if there were only more to give! Stephen, if there were only more!" Her hands had fallen into his, and they looked each other in the eyes.
Suddenly, through the hush of the enchanted moment, a sullen sound broke--the sound of a voice they knew, threateningly raised, louder and louder, growling, profanely menacing.
Aghast, they turned in the darkness, peering toward the lighted space beyond.