Chapter 35

What an uncanny situation! Strange--strange--his standing here to humor the mad whim of this stricken maid--this wonderfully sweet young stranger, looking out of eyes so lovely that he almost believed the dead intelligence behind them was quickening into life again. "What must we do to be married?" she whispered. "Say so; that is all," he answered gently. "Do you take me for your husband?" "Yes.... Do you t-take me for your--wife?" "Yes, dear----" "Don't say _that_!... Is it--over?" "All over," he said, forcing a g…