"If--if I said 'yes'-- Ah, but I do not!" she broke off as he made to draw her to him, and she shrank back.

"I do not! I said 'if,' it would not be true; it would not be fair.

For I do not know.

I might be--sorry, after--after you had gone.
And it would be too late then." "You're right," he assented, grimly.

"Once I got you, no power on earth should make me let you go again." Her lips quivered and her eyes drooped before his.