You can live in palaces still, if you want to, and if you want to be a queen I'll ferret out a kingdom somewhere and buy it, but I am afraid you'll have to be Mrs.Lane behind it all, you know." "You really are the most intolerable person," she exclaimed, biting her lip.

"How can I get these absurd ideas out of your mind ?" "By telling me honestly, looking in my eyes all the time, that you could never care for me a little bit, however devoted I was," he answered promptly.

"You won't be able to do it.

I've only one belief in life about these things, and that is that when any one cares for a girl as I care for you, it's absolutely impossible for her to be wholly indifferent.

It isn't much to start with, I know, but the rest will come.