“I don’t know—why. Only that I cannot.”
“Then, when will you marry me? Julia, I see all the others together and it——. You don’t know what it does to me.”
“Yes, I know! It kills me too.”
“Then why wait?”
“Because——.” The poignant look went for an instant from Julia’s eyes. A strange brooding came in its place. “Because a little voice inside says, ‘Wait!’”
“Julia, do you love me?”
Julia did not answer. She only looked at him.
“You are sure there is nobody else?”
“I am sure. There could never be anybody else—after that first night when I waked you from sleep.”
“It is forever, then?”