“Do you love me, Sosee?” he next asked with more tenderness.
“I won’t tell you,” she replied, sobbing.
“Will you go with me, and stay with me?”
“I never said I wouldn’t.”
Here followed a long pause, during which Sosee sobbed and sighed, and Koree looked about in his mind for some excuse for making peace without seeming to want to. Sosee came to his relief, however, with a question.
“Koree?”
“Well?”
“Will you go with me to find Orlee?”
Sosee, too proud to ask for his love, had asked for his service.
“Yes,” he replied, glad to give both, “and will not come back till we find her.”