"As this," he cried, drawing her closer, and bending his handsome head until their lips met. "Sweet, must I envy that violin?"
He felt her heart beating wildly against his own, their arms closed around each other convulsively. The sweetness of the music-laden, flower-scented air filled his senses.
"God! how I love you!" he said.
A frightened look came into her eyes, and she struggled, for a moment, futilely.
"Let me go!" she whispered; "let me go!"
"Do you want me to?" he answered, studying her face in the moonlight.
"No," she said. "No, never again, but, oh, Adam!"
XXII
I'm weary of conjectures—this must end them.
Addison.
Adam had to go to the cane-fields across the range, and one of the calves needed Robin's ministrations, so she could not go with him. He started before the stars were set, that he might be back before night, and returned twice to kiss her before he finally got away.