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'Yesterday'

'You saw him?'

'Yes At our house He came to see us'

'Gemma? Then you love me?'

She turned to him

'ShouldI have come here, if not?' she whispered, and both her hands fell on the seat

Sanin snatched those powerless, upturned palms, and pressed them to his eyes, to his lips Now the veil was lifted of which he had dreaht before! Here was happiness, here was its radiant form!

He raised his head, and looked at Gemma, boldly and directly She, too, looked at hilistened, dino! it laughed, with a blissful, noiseless laugh

He tried to draw her to hih the sah, shook her head 'Wait a little,' her happy eyes seemed to say

'O Gemma!' cried Sanin: 'I never dreamed that you would love me!'

'I did not expect this myself,' Gemma said softly

'How could I ever have dreamed,' Sanin went on, 'when I came to Frankfort, where I only expected to remain a few hours, that I should find here the happiness of all my life!'

'All your life? Really?' queried Gemma

'All my life, for ever and ever!' cried Sanin with fresh ardour

The gardener's spade suddenly scraped two paces froo hoether--will you?'

If she had said to him at that instant 'Throw yourself in the sea, will you?' he would have been flying headlong into the ocean before she had uttered the last word

They went together out of the garden and turned hoh the outskirts