She wanted to ask him what he had been doing that he could not answer her first call for help.
Then she knew that he would not answer her questions, but would only tell her what he wanted her to know.
Anyway everything else was immaterial beside the fact that she was safe, she was in his arms and he had kissed her.
She looked up at him and said very softly,
“I-I love you!”
He looked down at her and she could see his face in the moonlight and felt that his eyes were looking down into her soul.
“Are you sure of that?”
“I am as – sure of it as I have been – sure of anything in – my whole life.”
“And I love you!” he said very quietly.
He bent his head and just touched her lips, but she felt as if the moonlight swept through her like a streak of lightning.
They rode on and Sita was th
