16/24 Is your love like mine ?' 'I would say it was greater, if you were not so above me in all things.' 'Wilfrid, I was dying in my loneliness. It would not have been hard to die, for, if I was weak in everything else, at least my love for you would have grown to my last breath. If I speak things which I should only prove in silence, it is that you may not afterwards judge me hardly.' 'You shall tell me,' Wilfrid replied, 'when you are my wife. Till then I will hear nothing but that you are and always have been mine.' They came to a great tree about the trunk of which had been built a circular seat. The glades on every side showed no disturbing approach. |