You have realised that you will be my wife--my very own ?" "Yes," she said.

"I know now.

I know that I am giving you myself, that I am placing all my life in your hands." "God help me to guard it and make it happy!" he said; then he laughed.
"I have no fear! I will make you happy, Ida! I--I feel that I shall.

Do you understand what I mean?
I feel as if I had been set apart, chosen from all the millions of men, to love you and cherish you and make you happy! And you, Ida ?" She looked up at him with the same far-away, dreamy expression in her wonderful eyes.
"Now at this moment I felt that I, too, have been set apart for you: is it because you have just said the same?
No, because I felt it when you kissed me just now.

Ah, I am glad you did it! If you had not I might not have known that I loved you, I might have let you go forever, thinking that I did not care.