“That I—that I—cared.”
“I knew the day you cried. I didn't know myself until then, but it all came in a minute.”
“I was afraid you were going to stay away a whole week.”
“I couldn't, darling—I just had to come.”
“Did you see everybody you wanted to see?”
“I couldn't see anything but your face, Ruth, with the tears on it. I've got to go back to-morrow and have another try at the oculist.”
“Oh!” she exclaimed, in acute disappointment.
“It's the last time, sweetheart; we'll never be separated again.”
“Never?”
“Never in all the world—nor afterward.”