“We have rid ourselves of the second dragon,” he said, “and now, my Sleeping Princess, all I have to do is to awaken you not with a kiss but with love.”
“That is – what I – want,” Odela answered. “Oh, my darling, darling husband, you are so – wonderful and I find it very – hard to – believe that I am really your – wife.”
“If you say things like that,” the Marquis answered, “I shall kiss you and then we shall have an accident.”
Odela gave a little laugh. ,
“No one could drive as well as you.”
“That is what I want you to think,” he said, “just as I want you to believe that I am wonderful and to keep telling me so. But not when my hands are otherwise engaged!”
Odela laughed again.
Then in a whisper that he could hardly hear she murmured,
“I love – you – I love – you!”
He felt as if t
