"Oh, Mary, my love, my lady, you will keep your promise? You will be mine to-day?" he pleaded.
"I will be yours within two hours—upon one condition."
"Name it—name it!" he eagerly exclaimed.
"You must not marry me under your own name, but under that of Alden Lytton."
When she had said this, she stole a glance at him to see how he took it, and she was somewhat abashed by the look of unutterable amazement on the honest face of the young man.
"Come, what do you say to that?" she inquired.
"My dear Mary, what an astounding proposition!" he exclaimed.
"But you will agree to it?"
He was silent.
"You will agree to this, because you love me," she added.