"Listen!" she added hurriedly. "This is my promise. Fight it out, and I will help you by everything that's in me! No matter whom I'm with or where I'm going, I'll turn over everything, when you need me, and come!"
"Even nights like this?" he said. "For that's when it'll be the hardest!"
"Especially nights like this!" she cried, opening her arms with a feeling of glorification.
"Tell me something," he said slowly; "and be honest with me!"
"I swear I always will," she said impulsively from her heart, devoutly believing it.
"Are you in love now?"
"Yes!"
"Are you sure?"
His arm, as if suddenly aware of her body, removed itself. He bent toward her, striving to see her face.
An instant before, she had sworn to herself, swiftly, in the exultation of a new-born spiritual self, that to this man, at least, she would never lie; and all at once, by the divining charity of her woman's soul, bent on saving him, she began her first deception!