"Of course.

I was sliding back into the gully, but I knew you would help me." He stopped again, and the strained expression suddenly sank out of his eyes, while the girl flushed to the temples when they met her own.
"Now," he said very softly, "I shall get better.

Nothing can stop me.
You will hold me fast, and not let go." He drew her towards him, and Alice Deringham, seeing that the brief flash of reason was fading again, yielded to the feeble pressure, and sank to her knees holding fast the hot fingers that drew her hand to his breast.

Then moved by an impulse swift and uncontrollable she bent a little farther and kissed him on the cheek.

Alton said nothing, but opened his eyes and smiled at her, and then lay still.
For a space of minutes the girl dare scarcely breathe.