I refused to escape without you.

Believe me or not, you are dearer than life itself.

In the confusion we two may not be missed.

Trust yourself wholly to me, I beseech you!" He spoke jerkily, in the labored phrase of a man who has to pick and choose the readiest words in an unfamiliar language.
Carmela, with a sudden movement, raised her face to his, and threw aside her veil.
"Salvador!" she said.
His eyes glared into hers.

His frenzied clutch at the reins pulled the horse on to its haunches.
"My God!.