I was told that you were ill, and came to you immediately.

Look at me! Here I am, and I love you." She straightened herself up quickly.

She shuddered, as with a mechanical movement she passed her fingers over her eyes.
"Doubt no longer, then.

See me at your feet, and realise that I love you now, as I have ever done." Then she exclaimed: "Oh! is it you?
I had given up expecting you, and yet you are here." With her feeble, trembling hands, she had taken his, thus assuring herself that he was not a fanciful vision of her sleep.
He continued: "You have always loved me, and I love you for ever.

Yes, notwithstanding everything; and more deeply even than I should have ever thought it possible to do." It was an unhoped-for excess of happiness, and in this first minute of absolute joy they forgot everything else in the world, giving themselves up to the delightful certainty of their mutual affection, and their ability to declare it.