Will you wait a--a little longer--for me to--to change ?" He stood up suddenly in the darkness, and she sprang to her feet, breathless; for she had caught the low exclamation, and the strange sound that stifled it in his throat.
"Tell me," she stammered, "w-what has happened.

D-don't turn away to the window; don't leave me all alone to endure this--this _something_ I have known was drawing you away--I don't know where! What is it?
Could you not tell _me_, Captain Selwyn?
I--I have been very frank with you; I have been truthful--and loyal.

I gave you, from the moment I knew you, all of me there was to give.

And--and if there is more to give--now--it was yours when it came to me.
"Do you think I am too young to know what I am saying?
Solitude is a teacher.

I--I am still a scholar, perhaps, but I think that you could teach me what my drill-master, Solitude, could not.