Leave me here alone for half an hour.
I want to think." She did what she had never done voluntarily before.

She went up to him, and clasped her arms round his neck.

She bent her blushing face over his, and the caress surprised as much as it delighted him--she was so shyly demonstrative.
"What are you going to think about, Norman?
Will it be of me ?" "Of whom else should I think on my wedding-day, if not of my wife ?" he asked.
"I should be jealous if your thoughts went anywhere else," replied Madaline.

"There is a daring speech, Norman.

I never thought I should make such a one." "Your daring is very delightful, Madaline; let me hear more of it." She laughed the low, happy, contented laugh that sounded like sweetest music in his ears.
"I will dare to say something else, Norman, if you will promise not to think it uncalled for.