It mattered nothing that she was already perfectly satisfied on this point.

It was so nice (after he had said it five hundred times already) to make him say it once more! "Suppose I had no explanation to give ?" she said.

"Would you stay behind by yourself to please me ?" "I would do any thing to please you!" "Do you really love me as much as that ?" They were still in the yard; and the only witnesses present were the dogs.

Arnold answered in the language without words--which is nevertheless the most expressive language in use, between men and women, all over the world.
"This is not doing my duty," said Blanche, penitently.

"But, oh Arnold, I am so anxious and so miserable! And it _is_ such a consolation to know that _you_ won't turn your back on me too!" With that preface she told him what had happened in the library.