If she had asked him to make it two months instead of one, he would have refused, for it seemed to him intolerable to lose a moment between decision and action, and his thoughts doubled their stride with every step, in a geometrical progression; a moment hence, a minute would be an hour, an hour a month, a month a lifetime.

Men have won battles in that temper; but it has sometimes cost them their life.
'I know you are sensible,' Giovanni said, taking Angela's hand between his, 'but it is to please you that I agree to wait a month.

It is not because it looks wise, as it does.

For one man who succeeds by wisdom, ten win by daring.

Who knows what may chance in a month, or what may happen to put out of reach what I could do to-day ?' 'Nothing!' Angela gave her answer with the delicious little smile of superiority which the youngest woman and even the merest girl can wear, when she is sure that she is right and that the man she loves is wrong.