"And you are never to leave me," he said, dreamily. "I can't realize it yet." After a pause he added: "I am demanding too much of you, sweetheart."
"You are demanding nothing, sir; if you did you wouldn't get it. If I choose to give you anything, you are to be grateful and discreetly silent."
"Can't I say, 'Thank you'?"
"Not a word."
"I am content," he said, and closed his eyes again to express it, and she, being unasked, bent and kissed his forehead.
Rousing up a few minutes later, he said, "I have a present in keeping for you."
"Have you? What is it? Is it from you? Why didn't you let me see it before?"
He rose and opened a closet door. "Because the proper time had not come. Before I show it to you I want you to promise to wear it."
"I promise," she instantly replied.
"Don't be so ready; I intend it to be a symbol of your change of heart."