We have grown so intimate in these few weeks, we seem to understand each other so wholly, with so little effort, we spend such happy, peaceful hours together every day, that I can almost fancy our two selves having been together through a whole lifetime in some former state, living together, thinking together, inseparable from birth, and full of an instinctive, mutual understanding.

I do not know whether that seems an exaggeration to you or not.

Has the same idea ever crossed your mind ?" She said something, or tried to say something, but the words were inaudible; he interpreted them as expressive of assent, and went on, in a musing tone, as though talking quite as much to himself as to her.
"And that is the reason why it seems as though we must be more than friends, though we have known each other so short a time.

Perhaps it is too much to say." He hesitated, and paused.

Unorna breathed hard, not daring to think of what might be coming next.