CHAPTER XV

“For your wife!” she repeated in wonder, as if she had not heard aright. “You would not choose _me_ for you _wife_!” “I surely do,” he said tenderly, “I want it more than I ever wanted anything in my life before. I tell you I have loved you ever since that first morning. I could not get the vision of your fresh, sweet face out of my mind. It stayed with me all day long, and I looked for you eagerly at the first concert.” “How wonderful!” answered Marion in a low, sweet voice as if she had just received a message fr…