"Is not love greater than all?"
"To keep a pledge is greater."
"Yet if evil come?"
"There is the mine."
"None travels hither; who should find it?"
He said to me, my wife: 'Antoine, will you stay and watch the mine until
I come with the birds northward, again?' and I said: 'I will stay, and
Angelique will stay; I will watch the mine.'"
"This is for his riches, but for our peril, Antoine."
"Who can say whither a woman's fancy goes? It is full of guessing. It is clouds and darkness to-day, and sunshine—so much—to-morrow. I cannot answer."
"I have a fear; if my husband loved me—"
"There is the mine," he interrupted firmly.