Oh! why wouldn't he let me go back to him?
But now I shall know how to grapple with this." After pronouncing these words with immense assurance, he glanced down at her, and at once fell a prey to distress, incertitude, and fear.
The only thing he wanted to know now, he said, was whether she did love him enough--whether she would have the courage to go with him so far away?
He put these questions to her in a voice that trembled with anxiety--for he was a determined man.
She did.

She would.

And immediately the future hostess of all the Europeans in Sulaco had the physical experience of the earth falling away from under her.

It vanished completely, even to the very sound of the bell.

When her feet touched the ground again, the bell was still ringing in the valley; she put her hands up to her hair, breathing quickly, and glanced up and down the stony lane.