"If anyone were to tell me that it was possible for you to be afraid, I shouldn't believe them," he said.

"Fear and you haven't made acquaintance yet, Ida!" She shook her head.
"I am so happy, so intensely happy, that I am afraid lest the gods should be jealous and snatch my happiness from me.

I am afraid that if you come to-morrow, my father will say 'No,' will--" -- "Will have me shown out," said Stafford, gravely.

"I see.

I shouldn't be surprised." "And--and then I should not be able to see you again." He laughed at the idea.
"My dearest, if all the fathers in the world said 'No,' it wouldn't make any difference to me," he said, with that air of masterfulness, that flash of the eye which a woman loves in a man.