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... Give me time."
His voice was glad as he answered, and its gladness shamed her again.
"Wait. ... I'd wait forever. But I don't want to wait forever. ... It
is more than I hoped, more than I had the right to hope. I know I
took you by surprise. ... Let me have time and the chance to make you
love me--to let you get used to the idea of my loving you. But try
not to be long. I'm impatient--you don't know how impatient. ..."
"I-I sha'n't be long," she said. "You mustn't build too many hopes. ..."
He laughed. She had never heard him laugh with such lightness, with
such a note of soul-gladness, before. "Hope. ... I shall eat and
drink hope--until you--come to me. For you will come to me. I know
it. ... It couldn't be any other way." He laughed again, gayly. And
then from out the blackness of the surrounding shrubbery there
plunged the figure of a man. ...
Before Bonbright could lift a hand to shield himself blows began to
fall, blows not delivered with the naked fist.


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