I came back because I loved you.

I loved you the day you came to see Maw--even when I thought you came to tell her of Masters, and to say that you couldn't take me back." "But you don't ask me if I love you ?" "But you do--you couldn't help it now," she said confidently.
What could he do but reply as illogically with a closer embrace, albeit a slight tremor as if a cold wind had blown across the open window, passed over him.

She may have felt it too, for she presently said, "Kiss me and let me go." "But we must have a longer talk, darling--when--when--others are not waiting." "Do you know the far barn near the boundary ?" she asked.
"Yes." "I used to take your books there, afternoons to--to--be with you," she whispered, "and Paw gave orders that no one was to come nigh it while I was there.

Come to-morrow, just before sundown." A long embrace followed, in which all that they had not said seemed, to them at least, to become articulate on their tremulous and clinging lips.

Then they separated, he unlocking the door softly to give her egress that way.