I thought I was sent here to capture Johnston, but my real mission was to save you.

I've gone too far now to retreat.

So have you." "I ?" in half indignant surprise.
"Dear, do you suppose I would dare this if I doubted you ?--if I did not believe your heart was mine ?" "And if convinced otherwise, what would you do ?" The tone in which this was spoken, the swift question startled me.
"Do?
Why, there would be nothing to do, except return." "Leaving your prisoners ?" I glanced out through the nearest window, noting the sky growing gray in the east, and suddenly realized that, if we succeeded in getting away ourselves now, the transporting of Confederates under guard would be scarcely possible.

She seemed to read all this in my face, before I could frame an answer.
"I have listened to you, Lieutenant Galesworth," she burst forth, "because I had to.

You have had everything your own way thus far, but now it is my turn.