I wanted to see him first, to question him, to know if I had partly guessed the truth, or if there was any loophole of escape for me.

Oh, do not think any worse of me now if I tell you that I loved you then and shall always love you.

I wanted to tell you so that day by the Moon Rock, but I knew that I must not." "Why not ?" His louder voice broke in on her subdued tones impetuously.
"You should not have sent me away, Sisily.

That was wrong.

It has brought much misery upon us both." "It was not wrong!" she replied, with unexpected firmness and a momentary hardness of glance, which reminded him of her father's look.