I had thought that the coming of a lover was a joyous thing, a time of happiness alone." "Ah, now, in the hour of mist can you not foresee the time of sunshine?
All life is before us, my sweet, all life.

There is much for us to do, there are so many, many days of love and happiness." But now the Lady Catharine Knollys veered again, with some sudden change of the inner currents of the feminine soul.
"I have gone far with you, Mr.Law," said she, suddenly disengaging her hand.

"Yet I did but give you insight of things which any man coming as you have come should have well within his knowledge.

Think not, sir, that I am easy to be won.

I must know you equally honest with myself.
And if you come to my regard, it must be step by step and stair by stair.