In all their beauty, I have never seen them so before." "It is because I am a new created thing, as I have told you, love," she answered, and leaned towards him.

"Do you not know I never was a child.
I bring myself to you new born.

Make of me then what a woman should be--to be beloved of husband and of God.

Teach me, my Gerald.

I am your child and servant." 'Twas ever thus, that her words when they were such as these were ended upon his breast as she was swept there by his impassioned arm.