It is not so difficult to do this when all things seem to be coming one's way.
Presently Georgia remembered.
As she turned from Inez and faced her lover, face and neck were suffused with scarlet.
In his eyes it was a beautiful sight, and he could not remember ever having seen her look so charming.
"Oh! Roderic, can you, will you forgive my cruel, unjust suspicions, my insane jealousy that caused me to treat you so bitterly, that refused to hear your explanations? I do not deserve your love, but God knows I could not live without it. Tell me you forgive such a wretch, and make me happy again."
He opened wide his arms, and forgetting her confusion, forgetting everything but that she loved him and had again found Paradise, her head was quickly pillowed on his shoulder, and she looked up into his face, smiling through her tears.
"You do forgive?"
"As I hope to be forgiven. Let it be forgotten, even as you said of my transgression. We love—we have been true to each other—the future lies before us, why should we burden ourselves with foolish doubts and fears? From this hour then we begin anew, nor may all Satan's power prevail against us, nor shall I have reason to fear a Jerome or a Julio, the latter of whom turns out to be the erring black sheep in the family of Inez—her step-brother. As to Leon——"
"Carramba! yes, what of Leon?" cried Inez, with suddenly renewed interest.