If you bade me go, I would go and never look upon a familiar face again." "I do not like to say go, or stay," she replied, hesitatingly.

"It is a serious thing to interfere with a man's life." "I have dared already more than I ever dreamed of daring.

I have told how rashly I have ventured to raise my eyes to the sun--you know my presumption.

I have dared to kneel at your feet, and tell you that you are the star of my idolatry, the source of all my inspiration.

You know that, yet you will not punish my presumption by telling me to go ?" "I will not," she replied, gently.
"Then you are not angry with me?
I did not know life held such happiness as that.