The chamber was very still. Rose could hear the ticking of grannie's watch beside her on the stand. Presently she spoke in a wondering tone.
"Love me? Grannie, is it that?"
"What did you think it was?"
"I didn't think. I thought it was something greater."
"There is nothing greater, Rose. Is there anything more terrible?"
The girl turned her face over, and dropped it for a minute on the hollow of the old woman's arm. Then she spoke, and to grannie's amazement she laughed a little, too.
"Oh, I never dreamed I could be so happy!"
"Happy! But is he happy?"
"He must be, if he knows it. Do you think he knows it, grannie?"
"I'm afraid he does, my dear," said grannie sadly.