I wanted to think over what I had just heard, to try and understand what it meant.
"I went down to the Moon Rock, and sat there, thinking and thinking.

They were so strange and terrible, those words I had overheard, but they were so few that I did not really guess then all that they meant.

All I knew was that there was some dreadful secret behind them, some secret of my mother's which had something to do with me.

I wished that I had heard more.

As I sat there, wondering what I ought to do, you came--" "To tell you that I loved you, that I shall love you as long as I live," he interrupted eagerly.
Again a faint flush rose to her cheeks, but she hurried on: "I could not tell you that I loved you while those dreadful words of my father were ringing in my ears.