What then ?" "What then?
Why--this! I don't care what you've done.

It doesn't matter to me whether you are an outcast or not.

If you are, then I'm willing to be an outcast with you.

Oh, Garth--My Garth! I've been begging you to marry me all afternoon, and--and----" with a broken little laugh--"you can't _keep on_ refusing me!" Before her passionate faith and trust the barriers he had raised between them came crashing down.

His arms went round her, and for a few moments they clung together and love wiped out all bitter memories of the past and all the menace of the future.
But presently he came back to his senses.