Oh, I _did_ forgive you, Jack; truly I did with all my miserable heart! I was so fearfully unhappy--I would have done anything." ...

Her face flushed scarlet.

"And I--did....

But you do love me, don't you ?" And the next moment her lips were on his with a sob.
Duane reached back and quietly unclasped her fingers.

Then very gently he forced her to a seat on a great fallen log.