[The Odds by Ethel M. Dell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Odds CHAPTER XII 13/16
But now--do you know ?--I'm glad--glad.
It's just like sailing into Paradise, isn't it? Are any of your people there, Big Bear ?" "Perhaps," said Merefleet. "Won't you be pleased to see them ?" she said, with a touch of wonder at the indifference in his tone. "I want nothing but you, my darling," he said, and his lips were on her hair. He felt her fingers close upon his own. "I guess it won't matter in Heaven," she said, as though trying to convince herself of something.
"My dear, shall I tell you something? I love you with all my heart.
I never knew it till to-day.
And if we weren't so near Heaven I reckon I couldn't ever have told you." Some time later she began to talk in a dreamy way of the Great Haven whither they were drifting.
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