“Then how do you know she wishes to marry you?”

“I do not know; I just hope.”

He rolled his eyes toward the moon which was rising above the mountains on the other side of the lake, and with a deep sigh he fell back into Santa Lucia.

Constance leaned forward and scanned his face.

“Tony! Tell me your name.” There was an undertone of meaning, a note of persuasion in her voice.

“Antonio, signorina.”

She shook her head with a show of impatience.

“Your real name—your last name.”

“Yamhankeesh.”

“Oh!” she laughed. “Antonio Yamhankeesh doesn’t seem to me a very musical combination; I don’t think I ever heard anything like it before.”