"Couldn't you have thought of one for yourself?"
"Oh, yes," she said teasingly, "I could have come and asked you to marry me."
"I have not asked you yet, now I come to think of it, so will repair the fault, if you please."
"Go down properly on your knees then."
I did as she bade me, and she put her hands one on each side of my face, and held me fast.
"Didn't you know I loved you, Victor?"
"No, my darling, how could I? Why, when I left you the other day, I thought you were absolutely indifferent."
"Then why did you carry me off my feet to-day?"
"Because I felt braver, and wanted you so much, that the sight of you made me forget all considerations, made me forget everything except the one fact, that I loved you."
"I never thought that I should be proposed to in a scrubby little hotel by a King. My imagination could not carry me as far as that, but I shouldn't have minded if it had been a pigsty."