She knew not what to make of this talk and his portentous air, and felt a new apprehension rising in her mind.
"What is it?
What has happened now, Lee ?" she whispered.
But all at once he began to laugh.

He caught her hand and holding it gazed, smiling, into her eyes.

Then he drew from his pocket an envelope, which (still keeping prisoner the hand he had captured) he waved to and fro before her eyes.
"If I didn't know you well, I'd think you had lost your wits," she cried.
"I have--wits and heart both.

With joy! Wait, I'll take the letter out so that you can read it.

The only blessed thing I ever knew her to do! I bless her for it, at any rate." He pulled the letter and the clipping from their cover and laid them in Louise's hand.