"Are you just a little ashamed of me, John ?" "Ashamed?
Good heaven----" "Because," she interrupted him, "we have known each other such a very short time, and I have allowed myself to become so very, very well acquainted with you.

It has all been so delightfully sudden, and strange, and I am--just as happy as I can be.

You don't think it is immodest for me to say these things to my husband, John--even if I have only known him three days ?" He answered by crushing her so closely in his arms that for a few moments afterward she lay helplessly on his breast, gasping for breath.

His brain was afire with the joyous madness of possession.

Never had woman come to man more sweetly than Joanne had come to him, and as he felt her throbbing and trembling against him he was ready to rise up and shout forth a challenge to a hundred Quades and Culver Ranns hiding in the darkness of the mountains.