And now, at last--at last--they were together.

He drew her close and closer yet.

They had no words.

There was no need of words.

And in the silence of the hushed woods, and in the silence of a joy too deep for speech, the robin's song came sweet and sad.
"Charles!" "Ruth!" "I should like to tell you something." "And I should like to hear it." "I know what Raymond told you to conceal.