He was watching her beautiful face with a great hunger in his heart.
Mab was also silent for a while.

Presently she turned her face up to his.
"The Gate of Heaven," she said in a whisper.

"Isn't it fine ?" He did not speak.
She lifted a hand that felt like an icicle and slipped it into his.
"I guess we shall do this journey together, Big Bear," she said.

"I'm real sorry I made you come if you didn't want to." "You needn't be sorry," said Merefleet, with a huskiness he could not have accounted for.
"No ?" she said, with a curious little thrill in her voice.

"It's real handsome of you, Big Bear.