Why should you try me so ?" "Do speak a little lower, Tom: sound goes so far at night!--I didn't know you would want to see me like that," she answered, looking up in his face with a pleased smile.
"Didn't know!" repeated Tom.

"I want nothing else, think of nothing else, dream of nothing else.

Oh, the delight of having you here all alone to myself at last! You darling Letty!" "But I must go directly, Tom.

I have no business to be out of the house at this time of the night.

If you hadn't made me think you were in some trouble, I daredn't have come." "And ain't I in trouble enough--trouble that nothing but your coming could get me out of?
To love your very shadow, and not be able to get a peep even of that, except in church, where all the time of the service I'm raging inside like a wild beast in a cage--ain't that trouble enough to make you come to me ?" Letty's heart leaped up.