"Of what, then?"
"Of you."
"But you never told me."
"I've been trying to tell you the whole time."
Yet even in his arms her doubt stirred.
"What are you going to do now?" she whispered.
"You're going to marry me," he said.
He had been certain of it the whole time.
"I thought," she said an hour later, "that you were going to marry Gertrude."
"Oh, so that was it, was it? You were afraid——"