"Why talk of such things?" he answered. "How can it affect us? I am a poor student—"
"And I a poorer girl," she interrupted, "on a visit all too brief."
"On a visit that must last forever. I worship you, and you love me."
"I have not said so," she murmured, so softly that I could scarcely catch the words.
"Your eyes have told me; you will not sacrifice our love."
"Oh, if I were only a man," she said, placing both hands upon his shoulders.
"What, then, my love?" and he would have embraced her.
"Nothing," she answered, and the look in her eyes restrained him. "Let us go."
They passed on together, and I could not but smile at the manner in which the wretched little flirt pretended to keep him from her, and yet with every action strengthened the chain that bound him.
Then as they moved onward I discreetly followed, for I had fixed in my mind that I would spoil this rustic love-making, and show her that I knew her for what she was.