I wanted you to _know_ that it was true--I wanted you to _know_!" "That was it, my pet lamb!" Dowie kept hugging her to her breast "We'd both of us know! We know _you_--we do! No one need prove things to us.
We _know_!" "It frightened me so to think of asking you," shivered Robin.

"When you came to Eaton Square I could not bear it.

If your dear face had looked different I should have died.

But I couldn't go to bed to-night without finding out.

The Duchess and Lord Coombe are very kind and sorry for me and they say they believe me--but I can't feel sure they really do.