"Don't rise! May we not stay like this a little longer ?--Miss Churchill, there is something that I ardently wish to say to you." "Yes, Mr.Cary ?" "It is too soon to speak, I know,--it must seem too soon to you.

But to-day I said, 'The spring is flying--I'll put my fortune to the touch!' I think that you must guess the thing I wish to say--" "Yes, I know.

I wish that you would leave it unsaid." "I love you.

On the day, three months ago, when I saw you after my return and found the lovely child I remembered changed into the loveliest of all women, I loved you.

If then, what now, when I have seen you, day by day ?--I love you, and I shall never cease to love you." "Oh, with all my heart I wish that you did not!" "I ask you to be my wife.