Even this is not quite what we agreed, for you are still with me, and we've been married nearly half an hour!" "Perhaps we were married a thousand years ago--I don't know," he answered, drawing her to him.

"It's all a magnificent dream so far." "You must go, you must keep your word.

Don't break the first promise you ever made me, Philip." She did not say it very reproachfully, for his look was ardent and worshipful, and she could not be even a little austere in her new joy.
"I am going," he answered.

"We will go back to the town, I by the road, you by the shore, so no one will see us, and--" "Philip," said Guida suddenly, "is it quite the same being married without banns ?" His laugh had again a youthful ring of delight.

"Of course, just the same, my doubting fay," said he.