Gently her fingers crept to his wrists, and she took down his hands from her face, and drew him to the seat at her side.
"Yes, Philip," she said then, in a voice so low and calm that it roused a new sense of fear in him.

"There can be no sin in telling you that--after last night.

For we understand each other now.

It has filled me with a strange happiness.

Do you remember what you said to me in the canoe?
It was this: 'In spite of all that may happen, I will receive more than all else in the world could give me.