And so they walked soberly and silently to the wide-halled chamber recessed in the ancient sea-cliff. Kate paused ere they entered, and held her face up with a world of sweet surrender in it for Wat to kiss at his will.
"Dear love," she said, softly, "I beseech you do not distrust me any more. By this and by this, know that I am all your own. Once you made me say it. Now of mine own will I do it."
She spoke the last words shyly; then swiftly, as one that takes great courage on the edge of flight:
"Bend down your ear, laddie," she said, and paused while one might count a score.
Wat listened keenly, afraid that his own heart should beat too loud for him to catch every precious word.
"I love you so that I would gladly die to give you perfect happiness even for a day," she whispered.
And she vanished within, without so much as bidding him good-night.