“Is that – true?”
He looked at her for a long moment before he replied,
“Before we start talking about what has happened to you, my darling, before we even mention the future, I want to tell you one thing.”
He felt her fingers tremble as if she was afraid and he said,
“Look at me!”
She turned her head and he thought that her gold-flecked eyes, even with a very worried expression in them, were the most beautiful things he had ever seen.
“What I am going to say,” he went on in a deep voice, “is that if you were not who you are, if you were someone quite different without a single penny to your name, I would still go down on my knees and beg you to be my wife.”
As he spoke, he knew that it was something she had not expected him to say.
Then suddenly her face was radiant and her finger
