“But—though I am just beginning to divine it—you also drew me, Dulcie.”
“How could that be?”
“You did. You do still. I am just waking up to that fact. And that starts me wondering what I’d do without you.”
“You don’t have to do without me,” she said, instinctively laying her hand over her heart; it was beating so hard and, she feared, so loud. “You can always have me when you wish. You know that.”
“For a while, yes. But some day, when——”
“Always!”
He laughed without knowing why.
“You’ll marry some day, Sweetness,” he insisted.
She shook her head.
“Oh, yes you will——”