15/43 For months I have had no other pleasure than in being near you. For the first time in my life I have known what it is to forget my own affairs in loving a woman who seems to me without a fault, and for one solitary word from whom I would give all I have in life, and perhaps itself." Madeleine flushed and bent towards him with an earnestness of manner that repeated itself in her tone. One of these days you will thank me with your whole soul for refusing to listen to you now. |