Maruja lifted her little hands deliberately, and clasped them round his defiant neck.
"Listen, darling," she said, softly and quietly, as if only the security of silence and darkness encompassed them.

"You asked me just now if I would fly with you--if I would marry you, without the consent of my family--against the protest of my friends--and at once! I hesitated, Harry, for I was frightened and foolish.

But I say to you now that I will marry you when and where you like--for I love you, Harry, and you alone." "Then let us go at once," he said, passionately seizing her; "we can reach the road by the canada before assistance comes--before we are discovered.

Come!" "And you will remember in the years to come, Harry," she said, still composedly, and with her arms still around his neck, "that I never loved any but you--that I never knew what love was before, and that since I have loved you--I have never thought of any other.

Will you not ?" "I will--and now--" "And now," she said, with a superb gesture towards the barrier which separated them from Carroll, "OPEN THE DOOR!".