"I won't have it, sir! I won't have it! You have no right!" I clasped her little hand firmly in mine.
"This belongs to me now, darling, does it not?
You _will_ be my own darling little wife, won't you ?" I repeated.
She said nothing, but, after a moment, she raised her face to mine; and, as I bent down my head, and looked into her very soul, through the deep, honest, trusting, loving, grey eyes, our lips met in one long thrilling kiss.
It was a foretaste of paradise! END OF FIRST VOLUME..