15/17 They had only met three or four times; they had said so little to each other. Why, she could remember almost every word. He loved her, had knelt to her, he had told her so in passionate words, with looks which made her heart tremble, her breath come fast as she recalled them. That is, he wanted her to be his wife, to _give herself_ to him, to be with him always, never to leave him. He had asked her to think of it, to decide, to give him an answer. |