And by degrees they settled into quiet talk of the future.
He still feared she did not fully understand all she was giving up, and conscientiously endeavoured to make it clear to her.
She listened to please him, and because it was sweet to hear him, for all his thought in the matter was for her and her well-being.
So she let him go on; and when he had exhausted all his arguments, she said quietly—
"It is all nothing and less than nothing, dearest, compared with the rest. Where you go I go. Your work shall be my work, and your people my people, and nothing but death shall part us."
And with a heart that seemed like to burst for very fulness of joy in her, he said, "Amen!"
CHAPTER VI
A SUDDEN WIDE HORIZON
"Mr. Blair! The young man who spoke at the meeting the other night? Why, I didn't even know that you knew him, Jean!" said Aunt Jannet Harvey, gazing at her in wide-eyed wonder.