[The Odds by Ethel M. Dell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Odds CHAPTER XIV 66/103
The moonlight was shining on her beautiful face, and she was smiling tremulously, while her eyes were wet with tears. She reached out both her arms with a gesture that was full of an infinite tenderness. "Yes," she said, "yes, I see." And her glad voice rang and quivered on that note which Love alone can strike.
"It's true, darling.
It's true. He is richer now than he ever was before, and I--I have found endless riches too.
For I love him--I love him--I love him! And--he knows it!" "Molly!" exclaimed her sister in amazement. Molly did not turn.
She was staring into the moonlight with eyes that saw. "And nothing else counts in all the world," she said.
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