She had dropped her hands on her knees, and he, stooping, laid it upon them, when meeting her eyes for a moment, he observed with amazement and discomfiture that she was silent not from shame and compunction for what had seemed very unfeminine and heartless conduct, but from a rapture that seemed too deep for words.
"Miss Melcombe!" he exclaimed.
"Yes," she answered, in a low voice.

"It is an island that he is going to then.

I always thought I should not mind marrying him if he would go to a desert island.

And so he loved me, really and truly ?" "It appears that he did, _some time ago_" said Brandon, rather pointedly.
"Does any one else know," Laura asked, "but you ?" "Yes; John Mortimer does." Laura blushed deeply.
"Joseph told him first about this affair, but did not divulge the lady's name.

After all was settled, he acknowledged to us both that you were the lady.