"If you have nothing better on hand in the morning, let's go for a climb.

I've discovered a wild-boar's nest under the Golden Dome, and if you'd like to get a glimpse of the little, furry, striped piglings, I think we can manage it." She thanked him with her eyes, held out her thin, graceful hand of a schoolgirl, then turned slowly and continued her ascent.
As he descended, Kathleen, looking up from her embroidery, made him a sign, and he stood still.
"Where are you going ?" asked Scott, as she rose and passed him.
"I'm coming back in a moment." Scott restlessly resumed his book, raising his head from time to time as though listening for her return, fidgeting about, now examining the embroidery she had left on the lamp-lit table, now listlessly running over the pages that had claimed his close attention while she had been near him.
Across the hall, in the library, Duane stood absently twisting an unlighted cigar, and Kathleen, her hand on his shoulder, eyes lifted in sweet distress, was searching for words that seemed to evade her.
He cut the knot without any emotion: "I know what you are trying to say, Kathleen.

It is true that there has been a wretched misunderstanding, but if I know Geraldine at all I know that a mere misunderstanding will not do any permanent harm.

It is something else that--worries me." "Oh, Duane, I know! I know! She cannot marry you--in honour--until that--that terrible danger is eliminated.

She will not, either.
But--don't give her up! Be with her--with us in this crisis--during it! See us through it, Duane; she is well worth what she costs us both--and costs herself." "She must marry me now," he said.