Only a few paces away the stream of people passed up and down.
"It must end," she answered.

"You know that as well as I." "I don't know it.

I won't know it," he replied.

He reached out his hand towards hers, but she was too quick for him.

He bent nearer to her.
"Violet," he whispered, "marry me!" Violet Oliver glanced again to the courtyard.