"Haven't I been patient?
Haven't I waited and waited, eating my heart out in solitude, and loneliness, and misery?
But for your love, Kate, your undying love and faith in me--I should long ago have gone mad!" They passed out of hearing with the last words.

Reginald Stanford stood petrified; even Rose was desperately startled by the desperate words.
"Take me away, Reginald," she said trembling.

"Oh, let us go before they come back." Her voice aroused him, and he looked down at her with a face as white as the frozen snow.
"You heard him ?" he said.

"You heard her?
What does it mean ?" "I don't know.

I am frightened.