I love you.

And so help me God, I won't distrust you again!" Just as it entered my mind to risk everything on the chance that Ivor had by this time found his way out, I heard, or fancied I heard, a faint sound in the next room.

He was there still.
Instead of throwing open the door, as it had occurred to me to do, saying, "Let us look for the man, and make sure no one else let him in," I laughed out abruptly, as if on a sudden thought, but really to cover the sound if it should come again.
"Oh, Raoul!" I exclaimed, in the midst of the laughter with which I surprised him.

"You're taking this too seriously.

A thousand times I thank you for trusting me in spite of appearances, but--after all, _were_ they so much against me?
You seem to think I am the only young woman in this house.