"How fiercely she speaks! What a tiger this little woman of mine could be if she chose.

And so she absolutely believes in the old superstition that love is an essential element of matrimony." "You are laughing at me." "No, my darling, God forbid.

I am only--happy." "Are you really, really happy?
Do you think I can make you so--I, with all my unworthiness ?" "I am sure of it." She looked up in his face from out of his close arms, and they talked no more..