"Ah, darling, you shall forget that--"
"But you must not act rashly--must not do in a moment what you would repent your life long. Take a week for consideration. Go over every thing in your mind, and then come back to me and tell me the result."
"I know it now. O, don't hesitate, Margaret; don't let me wait the horrid week!"
"It is right, and so we will do it. It will be more tedious to me than to you, my--my Geoffrey."
Ah, how caressingly she spoke, and what a look of love and passion glowed in her deep-violet eyes!
"And I am not to see you during this week?"
"No; you shall be free from whatever little influence my presence may possess. You shall go now. Goodbye."
"God bless you, my darling!" He bent down and kissed her upturned mouth, then was gone. She looked after him wistfully; then after some time said softly to herself: "I did not believe there lived so good a man."