For the rest, do you think that I do not know you now?
That I can be twice deceived?
Twice take gold for dross, and my own for another thing?
I know you!" "But you do not know," she said tremulously, "what I have done--what I did last night--or what may come of it." "I know that what comes of it will happen, not to one but to two," he replied bravely.

"And that is all I ask to know.

That, and that you are content it shall be so ?" "Content ?" "Yes." "Content!" There are things, other than wine, that bring truth to the surface.

That which had happened to the girl in the last few hours, that which had melted her into unwonted song, was of these things; and the tone of her voice as she repeated the word "Content!" the surrender of her eyes that placed her heart in his keeping, as frankly as she left her hands in his, proclaimed it.

The reserves of her sex, the tricks of coyness and reticence men look for in maids, were shaken from her; and as man to man her eyes told him the truth, told him that if she had ever doubted she no longer doubted that she loved him.