“And what do you feel now?”
“I adore and – worship you,” she said a little shyly. “That is what I want you to say. At the same time, you have to help me and inspire me to be very much better – than I am at the moment.”
“I want you just as you are,” Yursa said, “and I am so happy that I feel as if you have put the stars that – have vanished from the sky – into my heart.”
“That is what I intend to do,” the Duc said, “and, if I can give you the moon and the sun, that would not be enough to express my love.”
She put out her hand and drew him a little closer to her.
“You must be very – very careful,” she said, “because if I should lose you – I would want to die.”
It flashed through both their minds how near they had been to death and the Duc said,
“We have to live. There is so much for u
