“That’s all very well for you to say, but you can’t help us thinking what we please.”
“But that ain’t right. I don’t want you thinking things that ain’t so because——”
“Yes? Because——?”
She lifted her eyes and met his. Then she knew it had to come out, that the feeling banked in him would overflow in words.
“Because you’re the girl I love.”
He had not intended to say it now, lest he might seem to be urging his services as a claim upon her. But the words had slipped out in spite of him.
She held out her two hands to him with a little gesture of surrender. The light of love was in her starry eyes.
And then——
She was in his arms, and the kisses he had dreamed about were on his lips.