21/22 She graduates next week, and I intend to marry her before I return home. She was faithful when others were faithless, stood by me when others deserted me to die in loneliness and neglect, and now I am about to reward her care with all the love and devotion it is in my power to bestow. That is why I am about to marry my faithful and devoted nurse, who snatched me from the jaws of death. Now that I have told you my story, what say you ?" "Madness and folly inconceivable!" exclaimed Lorraine. After all, Alf, is there not an amount of unreason in our prejudices ?" "That may be true; but I wasn't reasoned into it, and I do not expect to be reasoned out of it." "Will you accompany me North ?" "No; except to put you in an insane asylum. |