“Frank.”
“I could not. Oh, no!”
“But you love me—don't you?”
“I could not help lovin' you. I want to be with you—that's all.”
“All!”
So faint that he hardly heard, she whispered: “I shall die if I can't be with you.”
Ashurst took a mighty breath.
“Come and be with me, then!”
“Oh!”
Intoxicated by the awe and rapture in that “Oh!” he went on, whispering: