So she was there indeed! He could hear her sobbing breath.

There came to him the consciousness of her hands clasping his, and the faintest, vaguest glow went through his ice-cold body.

He tried, piteously weak as he was, to bend his fingers about hers.
And then there came the warmth of her lips upon them, kissing them with a fierce passion of tenderness, drawing them close as if to breathe her own vitality into his failing pulses.
"Open your eyes to me, darling!" she besought him.

"See how I love you! And see how I want your love! I can't do without it, Billikins.

It's my only safeguard.