the temerity to love you." She cried out at that, and clutched her breast whose calm was suddenly disturbed.

Her eyes dilated as she stared at him.
"I...

I've startled you," said he, with concern.

"I feared I should.

But it was necessary so that you may understand." "Go on," she bade him.
"Well, then: he saw in me one who made it impossible that he should win you--so he said.