"You must ask him that yourself, if you do not know."
"And yet you married me, knowing all—that he loved me," she gasped.
"I would have married you then, knowing a thousand times that."
She cowered, but presently advanced to him. "You have sinned as much as
I," she said. "Do you dare pay the penalty?"
"Do I dare ride with you to the cliff—and beyond?" Her lips framed a reply, but no sound came.
"But we will wait till to-morrow," he said absently.
"Why not to-day?" she painfully asked.
"We will wait till to-morrow," he urged, and his eyes followed the trail of a horseman on the hill.
"Why not while we have courage?" she persisted, as though the suspense hurt her."
"But we will wait till to-morrow, Alice," he again repeated.