"Leave you now? Never!"
Her tone fascinated him and he looked at her with growing intensity in his now sunken eyes. Soul met soul in that long, hungry gaze.
Behind them the storm raged through the forest. Before them the waves beat wildly. The time and place completely separated them from the world.
Alone with death—and George.
The fearful past was entirely obliterated. The eternal future—what might it bring? Only the fleeting now was surely hers!
She watched his face becoming gray. His eyes still shone upon her.
"George," she murmured, putting both arms around his drooping head, "we shall die together."
His eyes closed, and she uttered a cry of misery.
"George! speak! speak! You must tell me once more you love me!"
His eyes opened upon her with a great joy.