She did, and consciousness was lost for them as their mouths clung together and their hearts throbbed like one.
“Isn’t it better?” Rhoda asked, as they walked back in the darkness. “Won’t it make our life so much simpler and happier?”
“Perhaps.”
“You know it will.” She laughed joyously, trying to meet his look.
“Perhaps you are right.”
“I shall let no one hear of it until—. Then let us go abroad.”
“You dare not face Mary?”
“I dare, if you wish it. Of course she will laugh at me. They will all laugh at me.”
“Why, you may laugh as well.”
“But you have spoilt my life, you know. Such a grand life it might have been. Why did you come and interfere with me? And you have been so terribly obstinate.”