Massington moved toward her. The amber glow of a small table lamp lighted up the bronze glory of Lolo’s tumbled tresses. And her eyes were as twin Chopin nocturnes dreaming out the melody of a far-off, unattainable love.
He paused before daring to lift his voice against the wonderful silence that, like midnight on southern Pacific seas, hung over her.
Presently, “When you do decide, what then?” he ventured.
“When I do decide,” she told him, “it will be forever. But ere I give you my answer, ere we take the step that must mean so much in our lives, we must both be strong enough to remember that
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Society demands certain conventions that dare not be intruded upon.” Lolo toyed with some roses on the table at her side—roses he had sent her that same afternoon.
“But, darling,” breathed Massington, “what are mere conventions for us two now?”