I want to know if you will help me in my work by becoming my wife; and I think that even you can not help answering that question seriously." The laughter vanished from Elisabeth's face, as if it had been wiped out with a sponge.

"Oh! I--I don't know," she murmured lamely.
"Then you must find out.

To me it seems that you are the one woman in all the world who was made for me.

Your personality attracted me the first moment that I met you; and our subsequent companionship has proved that our minds habitually run in the same grooves, and that we naturally look at things from the same standpoint.

That is so, is it not ?" "Yes." "The only serious difference between us seemed to be the difference of faith.