"We have not come here by unaided human strength!" said she, clasping her hands. "I must be dreaming!"
"You call a fact supernatural, because you do not know its cause," he replied.
"Your answers are always stamped with some deep meaning," said she. "With you I understand everything without an effort.—Ah! I am free!"
"Your snow-shoes are off, that is all."
"Oh!" cried she, "and I would fain have untied yours, and have kissed your feet!"
"Keep those speeches for Wilfrid," said Seraphitus mildly.
"Wilfrid!" echoed Minna in a tone of fury, which died away as she looked at her companion. "You are never angry!" said she, trying, but in vain, to take his hand. "You are in all things so desperately perfect!"
"Whence you infer that I have no feelings?"
Minna was startled at a glance so penetratingly thrown into her mind.
"You prove to me that we understand each other," replied she, with the grace of a loving woman.