"I don't think I shall fail you." He was silent for a while, wondering if the next words he spoke would set them as far apart as though the previous hour had never been.

At last he spoke.
"Do you believe that husbands and wives should have no secrets from one another ?" he asked abruptly.
Diana had never really given the matter consideration--never formulated such a question in her mind.

But now, in the light of love's awakening; she instinctively knew the answer to it.

Her opinion leaped into life fully formed; she was aware, without the shadow of a doubt, of her own feelings on the subject.
"Certainly they shouldn't," she answered promptly.

"Why, Max, that would be breaking the very link that binds them together--their _oneness_ each with the other.