'O Stephen, Stephen,' she burst out again, as the remembrance of his packing came afresh to her mind, 'I cannot bear your going away like this! It is too dreadful.

All I have been expecting miserably killed within me like this!' Stephen flushed hot with impulse.

'I will not be a doubt to you--thought of you shall not be a misery to me!' he said.

'We will be wife and husband before we part for long!' She hid her face on his shoulder.

'Anything to make SURE!' she whispered.
'I did not like to propose it immediately,' continued Stephen.