"Yes. You must promise me that you will not awaken."
"I do not waken early. If I do I shall come to you, but I think I shall be asleep."
"Try to be asleep."
He saw that she was going to say something else—something not connected with his departure. It was growing in her eyes and after a silent moment or so she began.
"There is something I want to tell you," she said.
"Yes?"
"I have waited because I wanted to make sure that you could believe it. I did not think you would not wish to believe it, but sometimes there are people who cannot believe even when they try. Perhaps once I should not have been able to believe myself. But now—I know. And to-night I feel that you are one of those who can believe."
She was going to speak of it.
"In these days when all the forces of the world are in upheaval people are learning that there are many new things to be believed," was his answer.
She turned towards him, extending her arms that he might see her well.