“Because I love you with my whole soul.”
“Oh!”
“Turn your eyes to me, dear. Don’t look at the stars any more. Do you love me?”
“Yes.”
“Then at last I shall be blessed—I shall have a wander-bride—a wonder woman—some one who understands me, and whom I understand, to share with me the coming in of day, the mystery of the night and stars, the saneness of the moon—I shall have—Wanza! Do you remember, child:
“‘Down the world with Marna!
That’s the life for me!
Wandering with the wandering wind,
Vagabond and unconfined!’
“Do you remember the song I sang to you in the woods one night? There is another verse—listen!