"Then you will?" she cried, stretching out her hands to him. "Then you will?"
"Of course!"
Into his arms she threw herself, sobbing with the poignant ecstasy of joy, while he listened, still uncomprehending.
"That means so much to you?" he said. "But I always considered you as my wife."
Even in her emotion his simplicity drew from her a smile.
"Since when have you had this idea?"
"From the beginning."
"True?"
"Yes."