Claudia, I never knew you so alarmingly serious before." "Well, I won't be serious any more.

The fatal deed is done!" "And I may say 'Claudia' now without fear of any one ?" "You will be able to say it for about the next fifty years.

I hope you won't get tired of it.

Eugene, try to get tired of me last of all." "Never while I live! You are a perpetual refreshment." "A lofty function!" "And the spring of all my life.

Let us be happy, dear, and never mind fifty years hence." "I will," she said; "and I am happy." "And, please God, you shall always be so.