"I had given you up," she said.
He took both her hands and held them, bending toward her eagerly. She seemed taller than he in the lantern light.
"I should have come across the world," he said. "You must believe that I should not have asked this of you if I had not believed you could do it without injury to yourself—that it would impose no great burden on you, and that you would not think too ill of me—"
"I love you; I am here because I love you!" he said; and I thought better of him than I had. He was a fool, and weak; but he was, I believed, an honest fool, and my heart grew hot with jealous rage as I saw them there together.
"If there is more I can do!"
"No; and I should not ask you if there were. I have gone too far, as it is," she sighed.
"You must take no risks; you must take care that Miss Pat knows nothing."
"No; I must see father. He must go away. I believe he has lost his senses from brooding on his troubles."
"But how did he ever get here? There is something very strange about it."
"Oh, I knew he would follow us! But I did not tell him I was coming here—I hope you did not believe that of me. I did not tell him any more than I told you."