The thought that it might be wiser to watch moods and play on this one or that, and conceal her feelings and draw him on with mystery, could meet with no faintest understanding in her fond heart.
She just loved him, and belonged to him, and that was the whole meaning of heaven and earth.

Any trick of calculation would have been a thousand miles beneath her feet.

And while he was there with her, clasping her slender willowy form to his heart, John Derringham felt exalted.

The importance of his career dwindled, the imperative necessity of possessing Halcyone for his very own augmented, until at last he whispered in her ear as her little head lay there upon his breast: "Darling child, you must marry me at once--immediately--next week.

We will go through whatever is necessary at the registry-office, and then you must come away with me and be my very own." "Of course," was all she said.
"It is absolutely impossible that we could let anyone know about it at present--even Cheiron--" he went on, a little hurriedly.