Do you despise me for my enthusiasm ?" "I only love you the more," I said, wondering every instant, in a kind of horrid undertone, how I was to get him away.
"I admit I wasn't made for diplomacy," he went on.

"I wish, I had money enough to get out of it and take you off the stage, away into some beautiful, peaceful world, where we need think of nothing but our love for each other, and the good we might do others because of our love, and to keep our world beautiful.

Would you go with me ?" "Ah, if I could!" I sighed.

"If I could go with you to-morrow, away into that beautiful, peaceful world.

But-who knows?
Meanwhile--" "Meanwhile, you don't mean to send me away from you ?" he pleaded, in a coaxing way he has, which is part of his charm, and makes him seem like a boy.