Because you are the only woman for whom he has ever cared, and because he loves you with all his heart; and because his father would be reconciled to him to-morrow if he heard that you and he were engaged." "Laura, my dear--" "Well." "You won't be angry if I speak out ?" "Certainly not.

After what I have said, you have a right to speak out." "It seems to me that all your reasons are reasons why he should marry me;--not reasons why I should marry him." "Is not his love for you a reason ?" "No," said Violet, pausing,--and speaking the word in the lowest possible whisper.

"If he did not love me, that, if known to me, should be a reason why I should not marry him.

Ten men may love me,--I don't say that any man does--" "He does." "But I can't marry all the ten.

And as for that business of saving him--" "You know what I mean!" "I don't know that I have any special mission for saving young men.