Why should we wait ?" "Is it quite right, Nino ?" "Ah, yes, love, it is right,--the rightest right that ever was! How can such love as ours be wrong?
Have I not to-day implored your father to relent and let us marry?
I met him in the road--" "He told me, dear.

It was brave of you.

And he frightened me by making me think he had killed you.

Oh, I was so frightened, you do not know!" "Cruel--" Nino checked the rising epithet.

"He is your father, dear, and I must not speak my mind.