Then he began as if there had been no interval:
"You said--"
Marian laughed and looked at him--a flash of her luminous blue-green
eyes--and was looking away again with her usual expression. "You needn't
tell me the rest. It doesn't matter what I said. I've had you with me
wherever I went. You never doubted my--my caring, did you?"
"No. I couldn't doubt you. If you were the sort of woman a man could doubt,
you wouldn't be the sort of woman I could love. And you know it isn't
vanity that makes me sure. I often wonder how you happened to care for such
a--but I must not attack any one whom you like so well. No, I knew you
cared by the same instinct that makes you know that I care for you."
"But why did you come?"
"Because I have won a position for myself, have enough to enable us to live
without eternally fretting over money-matters. I feel that I have the right
to come. And then I could not be interested to live on, without you; and
I'm willing to face, willing to have you face, whatever may come to us
through me. I know that you and I together----"
"Not now--don't--please." Marian was pale and she was obviously under a
great strain. "You see, you knew all about this. But I didn't until you
looked at me when Jessie brought you.
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