But she hesitated.
"Dear," she said, "you make me very happy.

It is wonderful to think this may come after all these years.

But there is something which I wish to say to you first." "Well ?" "You are very, very dear to me now--as you are--but you are not the man I loved years ago.

You are a very different person indeed.

Sometimes I am almost afraid of you.
"You have no cause to be," he said.