“And she——?”
“Laughed at me; played shill-I-shall-I with my devotion; vowed she would not marry me till I had been killed in the wars to prove I was a hero; smiled on me one minute and scorned me the next.”
“And you love her still?”
“The sun rises in ’Toinette’s eyes; when she frowns the day is vile.”
“Despite her whims and arrogances?”
“Sure for me my queen can do no wrong. ’Tis her right to laugh and mock at me so only she enjoy it.”
Aileen stole one shy, quick, furtive look at me. It seemed to question whether her lover was such a pattern of meek obedience.
“And you never falter? There iss no other woman for you?”
“Saving your presence, there is no other woman in the world?”
Her eyes glistened.