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"Yes, I know," he returned gravely "I am ashamed"

"Don't say that!" she cried "Don't say you are ashamed of it Do you

suppose I do not understand the dreariness it has been for you? Don't you

know that I see it is a horror to you, that it brings back your struggle

with those beasts in the dark, and revivifies all your suffering, merely

to think of it?" Her turns and sudden contradictions left hiled in

a maze; he could not follow, but must sit helpless to keep pace with her,

while the sheer happiness of being with her tingled through his veins She

rose and took a step aside, then spoke again: "Well, since you want to

leave Carlow, you shall; since you do not wish to return, you need not--

Are you laughing at me?" She leaned toward him, and looked at hi; his eyes shone

with a deep fire; in that nearness he hardly co," she whispered, and leaned back from him "I

suppose you think my promises are quite wild, and they are I do not knohat I was talking about, or what I meant, any better than you do You may

understand some day It is all--I mean that it hurts one to hear you say

you do not care for Carlow" She turned away "Come"

"Where?"