What a glorious sunset! It seems to me as though I were living double every minute; and oh! Blix, isn't it the greatest thing in the world to love each other as we do ?" They had come to the top of the hill by now, and went on across the open, breezy downs, all starred with blue iris and wild heliotrope.
Blix drew his arm about her waist, and laid her cheek upon his shoulder with a little caressing motion.
"And I do love you, dear," she said--"love you with all my heart.

And it's for always, too; I know that.

I've been a girl until within the last three or four days--just a girl, dearest; not very serious, I'm afraid, and not caring for anything else beyond, what was happening close around me--don't you understand?
But since I've found out how much I loved you and knew that you loved me--why, everything is changed for me.

I'm not the same, I enjoy things that I never thought of enjoying before, and I feel so--oh, LARGER, don't you know ?--and stronger, and so much more serious.

Just a little while ago I was only nineteen, but I think, dear, that by loving you I have become--all of a sudden and without knowing it--a woman." A little trembling ran through her with the words.