If you can take me, knowing this, I am yours." He caught her in his arms, and broke out into a torrent of passionate delight and thankfulness.

She disengaged herself, cold and very pale.
"Leave me now," she said.

"I must go to the village alone.

Don't ask too much from me, Sir Ronald, or you may be disappointed." "Only one thing more, my darling.

Your father is to be married on the twenty-fourth.