I'll not risk losing you again." Nan shuddered in his arms.

To go straight from that last farewell with Peter into marriage with a man she did not love--it was unthinkable! She shrank from it in every fibre of her being.

Some day, perhaps, she could steel herself to make the terrible surrender.

But not now, not yet! "No! No!" she cried strickenly.

"I can't marry you! Not so soon! You must give me time--wait a little! Kitty--" She struggled to break from him, but he held her fast.
"We needn't wait for Kitty to come back," he said.
"No." The door had opened immediately before he spoke and Kitty herself came quickly into the room.