"You see and hear me?" asked the Doctor.
"Yes!"
"Do you see any other person?"
"No!"
"Agnes, I wish to question you upon a very important subject. Will you reply truthfully?"
"I will reply. Of course it will be truthfully, because I do not know falsehood."
"Do you love any one, so that you would marry him?"
"I do not know what love is. I do not know what marriage means for me."
The Judge breathed a sigh of relief as he heard these words. He thought that his daughter was safe, but even yet he did not comprehend the power of the man beside him.
"I will now tell you what it is to love. Listen!"