I love you! Oh, Katharine, I love you as my soul." There was a note of passion in his voice which thrilled her heart with ecstasy; the others had not made love this way.
"You seem to me like that star I have often watched in the long hours of the night, which has shown me the way on many a trackless sea.

I know I am as far beneath you as I am beneath that star.

But though the distance is great, my love can bridge it, if you will let me try.
Katharine--won't you answer me, Katharine?
Is there nothing you can say to me?
'Dost thou love me, Kate ?'" he quoted softly, taking her other hand.

How very fair, but how very far away she looked! The color came and went in her cheek.

He could see her breast rise and fall under the mad beating of a heart which had escaped her control, though hitherto she had found no difficulty in keeping it well in hand.
There was a novelty, a difference, in the situation this time, a new and unexpected element in the event.