But why do you ask me now ?" "Oh, only, dear, because I wonder whether we really ought to.

Somehow Isabel's visit has made me feel that life is a bigger, fuller thing than I had dreamed, and that men like you, at all events, have duties towards it even greater than your love for a little thing like me." "Jenny dear, don't talk like that.

Why should you?
You don't surely doubt my love!" "Of course not, Theophil.

It was only my silly little brain thinking for once in a while,--and I don't mean to be unkind, but really I rather mean it.

Are you still quite sure there is nothing in the world more important than love ?" "Quite sure," he answered; "surer than ever--if that were possible.