“I....”
Eric could not hear the next whispered words, but they seemed to satisfy Gaymer.
“Say ‘I love you more than my life’,” went on the relentless voice.
“I love you more than my life.”
“Say—‘I will marry you and no one else—’”
There was a pause and a sob.
“Oh, Johnnie, don’t make me! It isn’t fair on him!”
“You can’t be fair to us both!,” Gaymer cried.
“He’s been so wonderfully good to me. I should have killed myself, if it hadn’t been for him. I told him I’d marry him, I said he was the only person in the world I cared for. He’s done everything for me! We should have been married by now, but he wanted to give me time to be quite sure—”
She was interrupted by a harsh, triumphant laugh.