I will be content to wait.
God knows you are right to hesitate! Your love is too great, too precious a thing to be given to me without thought.

I'm not worthy to touch you--but I love you! I will wait.

You shall think of all I have said; and, let your answer be what it may, I won't complain! But--Ida--you mustn't forget that I love you with all my heart and soul!" She looked down at his handsome face, the face over which her lips had hovered only a short time since, and her lips moved.
"You--you are good to me," she said, in a faintly troubled voice.

"Yes, I know, I feel that.

Perhaps I ought to say 'no!'" "Don't!" he said, almost fiercely.