As soon as he had gone I rose swiftly.
"And now I must go."
"If you men aren't the funniest things!" she caught me by the hand, detaining me ... "not yet ... wait a minute. Read more of that poem you began, if only for a blind."
I picked up the book, started reading again ... strangely a rush of tears flooded my eyes and blurred the type....
I began to sob, heart-sick. I did love the absurd little man. My heart ached, broken over my lies....
"Oh! Oh!" I sobbed, "Hildreth, my woman, my sweetheart—he trusted me, Hildreth ... he trusted me!"
I knelt by the bed, thrusting my head into the lap of my First Woman.
She kissed me on top of the head.
"You're both two big, silly babies, that's all you are."