I shall be happy in
your----"
Her hand pulled itself away from his, and was laid with a gentle
insistence upon his mouth.
"Jerry," she said very softly, "that's enough--please. I understand.
That had to be said. I knew you would say it. It's what you think you
ought to say, of course. But--it's said now. You needn't repeat it. For
it's not the thing--I'm waiting for you to say."
"Nan----"
"Would you make a poor girl do it all?" she questioned, with a
suggestion of both laughter and tears in her voice.
"But, Nan----"
"I'm not used to it," she urged. "It's very embarrassing. And I ought to
be asleep this minute, getting ready for my early start. I'm not quite
sure that I shall sleep if you say it"--her voice dropped to a whisper
again--"but I'm sure I shall not if--you--don't."
"My dear girl----"
"That's hardly warm enough, is it--under the circumstances--when you
won't see me for a year? Jerry--a whole year----"
"Nan--for the love of Heaven come around here!"
"Not so much for the love of Heaven as----"
"No--for the love of you--you--_you!_"
She came at last--and then she saw his eyes.
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