And since you have come back, Dick, I am no longer afraid." She looked up at him with a smile, and tightened her clasp upon his arm with a pretty air of ownership.

"My Dick!" she said, and laughed.
The door-handle rattled, and Violet proved that she had lost her fear.
"That's Miss Ralston," she said.

"Let us go out," and she slipped out of the window quickly.

As quickly Linforth followed her.

She was waiting for him in the darkness.
"Dick," she said in a whisper, and she caught him close to her.
"Violet." He looked up to the dark, clear, starlit sky and down to the sweet and gentle face held up towards his.