You were so wonderful, Christine--so utterly beyond
anything I had expected to find. I was alarmed, I was actually
dismayed. But I told myself that I would win you; I would begin all
over again and I--"
"You saw me to-day?" she interrupted in surprise. "Where?"
"I was waiting for you at the station--far back in the crowd. I wanted
to see you in that way first. Your mother and I met there. She did not
tell you. She asked me to come to-night, but she was careful to give
me no hope. You will never know the doubts and fears that have beset
me all this long evening. And then you came in. I was dazed. I was all
a-tremble. And then to find that--that I had had all my fears for
nothing! Why--why, I could have died for joy! You did not hesitate.
You swept me off my feet. When you kissed me, Christine, I--I--it was
as if night had turned to day in--"
"I have gone on loving you, David, from the beginning. There never has
been a moment in which I have ceased to do so. Ah, you had nothing to
fear. But I! Oh, my dear one, I was never free from doubt--never quite
certain. You were so far above me that I--"
"Don't say that!"
"That I was sure you would not take our--our love dream seriously.
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