"And did you love me the moment our eyes met?"
"Long before that. I loved the back of your hat and one shoulder."
"Do you tell everybody you meet the same thing? It's rather a stale question to ask a man, but you do seem rather impulsive on so short an acquaintance."
"Short acquaintance? We've seen each other more than most people see of each other in six months. I know you and I know myself, and I know that I shall never be happy unless I can be trying to make you happy."
"I am very happy just now," she murmured.
"But we can't sit here forever, and we can't even be together for more than a day or two. I want you for my own. I don't want to see you only—only on—Mr. Enslee's property."
"Which reminds me," Persis said, with a tone of dispelled romance, "that we are still on Mr. Enslee's property, and it doesn't seem fair to him."
"Then let's leave Mr. Enslee's property."
"How? In an airship?"
"See that wall down there. That is one of the boundary lines. If we were over that I could tell you some things that I've got to tell you."