But that set Lois to laughing, a little nervously no doubt, yet so merrily that Philip could not but join in.
"Do I not owe everything to you?" he went on presently, with tender seriousness. "You first set me upon thinking. Do you recollect your earliest talk to me here in this room once, a good while ago, about being satisfied?"
"Yes," said Lois, suddenly opening her eyes.
"That was the beginning. You said it to me more with your looks than with your words; for I saw that, somehow, you were in the secret, and had yourself what you offered to me. That I could not forget. I had never seen anybody 'satisfied' before."
"You know what it means now?" she said softly.
"To-day?— I do!"
"No, no; I do not mean to-day. You know what I mean!" she said, with beautiful blushes.
"I know. Yes, and I have it, Lois. But you have a great deal to teach me yet."
"O no!" she said most unaffectedly. "It is you who will have to teach me."
"What?"