I want now to think alone, and think out this change in things, think away the old solitude, and think you and those others into my world....

I shall go.

I shall go back to-day to my place in the castle, and to-morrow, as the dawn comes, I shall come again--here." "I shall be here waiting for you." "All day I shall dream and dream of this new world you have given me.
Even now, I can scarcely believe--" She took a step back and surveyed him from the feet to the face.

Their eyes met and locked for a moment.
"Yes," she said, with a little laugh that was half a sob.

"You are real.
But it is very wonderful! Do you think--indeed--?
Suppose to-morrow I come and find you--a pigmy like the others...