But now suddenly the being of each shook and called to the other in wild need of the nearer nearness which is comfort and help.

It was early--early morning--the heath spread about them wide and empty, and at that very instant a skylark sprang from its hidden nest in the earth and circled upward to heaven singing as to God.
"They will take _you_!" she wailed.

"_You--you!_" And did not know that she held out her arms.
But he knew--with a great shock of incredible rapture and tempestuous answering.

He caught her softness to his thudding young chest and kissed her sobbing mouth, her eyes, her hair, her little pulsing throat.
"Oh, little love," he himself almost sobbed the words.

"Oh, little lovely love!" She melted into his arms like a weeping child.