5/15 It is so different--and the same. You are you, and I am I; why is it--do you know ?" "No; yes--I know, but cannot tell you. And if you find your people, what will you do--leave me to go to them? Let me look once more into those beautiful wild eyes, then perhaps I shall see in them as much as you see in mine." "Oh no, no, not that!" she murmured in distress, drawing away from me; then with a sudden flash of brilliant colour cried: "Have you forgotten the compact--the promise you made me ?" Her words made me ashamed, and I could not reply. |