Her quiet voice broke. "Oh, my darling love!" she cried. "Always, always I will be thinking of you! Wherever you are my spirit will go to you to love you and make you happy. You are my husband and my baby, too! Oh! I cannot speak more! How can I let you go! How can I let you go!"
She clung to him, her warm tears running down his face. He could not speak. He soothed her silently. She fought down the sobs. By and by she said quaintly:
"That is over."
When she got her breath back she partly raised herself, and said: "Another promise, Ralph."
"What?"
"Kitty."
He moved restlessly.
"Be good to her," she pleaded. "She is jus' sweet!"
"Impossible!" he said. "She's too much mixed up in this. I never want to see her again!"
"By and by maybe you change," said Nahnya softly. "If it was not for me you would marry Kitty. She is the one for you."