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"So happy, Martin, so content that I do fear lest it may all suddenly end and vanish like so her sweet fingers, "Look now, there is question hath oft been on my lips yet one I have it dared to ask"

"Ask ht it perchance be possible you should learn with timeently nor with reason, but fiercely,bounds of all reason?"

Now here she laughed, a sainst hed "How little you have seen, how little guessed--how little you know the real me! For I am a woman, Martin, as you are aback to your nobler self, I have seen you strive with yourself for hsometimes I havetempted youjust a little, Martin Nay, wait, dear Martin Oft-tiht I have known you steal forth, and hearkened to your step going to and fro out in the dark, and getting to my knees have thanked God for you, Martin"

"'Twas not all in vain, then!" says I, hoarsely, bethinking hts

"Vain?" she cried, "Vain? 'Tis for this I do honour you--"

"Honour--

"Above allher all shareatly I would not have you dream me better than I am! So now htyou were asleep, the el of God"

And noas my turn to stare up at the h for her answer

"And when you went away, Martin," says she at last, "when I heard you striding to and fro, out here beneath God's stars, I knew that yours was the greatest, noblest love in all the world"

"You--saw me?"

"Yes, Martin!"

"Yet your eyes were fast shut"

"Yes, but not--not all the ti arms reach out to take reatly merciful! And your triumph was mine also, Martin! And so it is I love you--worship you, and needs must all my days"