"I'm not worthy," murmured Raymond, pressing the light hair with his lips.
"Neither am I. We'll grow worthy together. It's like finding a beautiful thing we both were seeking. It isn't you or I—alone—it is something outside us that we are going to make—ours."
Spiritually Raymond got upon his knees, humanly he pressed the girl close.
"It's—you—the Thing is—you" he whispered, and at that moment knew the last, definite difference between what he now felt and—all that had gone before.
CHAPTER XXI
"To suffer sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth that has to be learned in the fire."
It was all so exactly as it should be—the love affair of Nancy and Raymond—that it lacked excitement. There was a moment when Doris and David Martin looked into each other's eyes and sadly smiled; but that was past as it came.
"It's all right, Davey!"