"God, but you were superb, Hildreth ... if you could only act that way on the stage!—"
"I could act that way on the stage," she replied unexpectedly, a trifle put out....
Then—
"A woman has to do many things to save herself—"
"Oh, I swear that you are the most marvellous, the most beautiful woman in the world ... I love you ... I adore you ... I'd die for you ... right here ... now!"
As we lay there in the dark the storm pulled and tugged and battered as if with great, sinister hands, striving to get in at us.
Hildreth trembled in my arms, shaking afresh at each shock of the wind and the rain.
"Don't be afraid, my little woman!"
"I wonder if he'd dare come down to-night?"