That is all-sufficient." They talked no longer for a while.

That little hand over his lips seemed almost too great a happiness for him.
"When the right time comes, then I shall know all.

Yet I assure you that I am ignorant of nothing connected with you, for everything had been revealed to me before our first meeting.

You were to be, and can be, only the handsomest, the richest, and the most noble of men, the one above all others; for that has ever been my dream, and in the sure certainty of its full accomplishment I wait calmly.

You are the chosen hero who it was ordained should come, and I am yours." A second time she interrupted herself in the tremor of the words she pronounced.