Daniel kissed her eyes: “You must hold me, keep me, even when it seems that I have left you,” he murmured.
Then he carried her in his arms through the door into his room.
“I have so longed, I have been so full of longing,” she said, pressing her lips to his neck.
XIII
Before one could realise it, winter had come, and the Place with the Church was covered with snow.
Eleanore had gone skating; when she returned she sat down in the living room to wait for Daniel. There she sat with her fur cap on her head, holding her skates in her hand by the cord: she was tired—and she was thinking.
Daniel entered the room and greeted her; she looked up, and said with a gentle voice: “I am with child, Daniel; I found it out to-day.”
He fell on his knees, and kissed the tips of her fingers. Eleanore drew a deep breath; a smile of dream-like cheerfulness spread over her face.
The following day Daniel went to the Town Hall, and made arrangements to have the banns posted.