9/12 "The circumstances are such that I cannot publicly own you as my wife, although it would be my glory so to do. I should have to give up my whole career, because I have no money to keep a splendid home, which would be your due. But I dare say these things do not matter to you any more than they do to me. Is it so, sweet, darling child ?" "How could they matter ?" Halcyone whispered from the shelter of his clasped arms. "Of what good would they be to me? |