"You mean——" he said; and then, "don't you hold me cheap?"
She glanced up again and shook her head.
"But—for instance—you don't think of me—as an equal like."
"Why not?"
"Oo! But reely——"
His heart beat very fast.
"If I thought," he said, and then, "you know so much."
"That's nothing," she said.
Then, for a long time, as it seemed to them, both kept silence, a silence that said and accomplished many things.
"I know what I am," he said, at length.... "If I thought it was possible.... If I thought you.... I believe I could do anything——"