She only knew that he was speaking as she had never heard him speak before.

"Yes, Ralph," she repeated.
"Perhaps, as I say, it's harder for me to ask than for you to answer, Rotha," he continued, and the strong man looked into the girl's eyes with a world of tenderness.

"Do you think you have any feeling for Willy--that is, more than the common?
I saw how you sat together as I came in to you.

I've marked you before, when he has been by.

I've marked him, too.