But for the rest, the title and the estates and the other things, I welcome them only because you will share them with me.

Celia, I'm not such an idiot as not to realize that I am coming to you as something more than a penniless adventurer, well-nigh nameless, a man of no account.

If I had all the world at my command, the highest title a man could bear, I should only value them because I could lay them at your feet." The tears welled to her eyes and, of her own accord, she drew his head down to her and laid her sweet lips on his.
"You are too good to me; I am not worth it," she said, brokenly.

Then, with something like a start, she whispered, with a dawning fear and horror in her eyes, "And the other--Lord Heyton?
And his wife! Oh, poor, poor woman! And she has borne so much already! She is lying there, upstairs, prostrated.

Who is to tell her?
Oh, Derrick, dearest, who is to tell her ?" "You," he said, gently.