She bowed her head, vanishing from him under her conniving hat-brim.
\"Why should we dream away another year? Look at me, dear! Don't you understand how I want you for my wife?\"
For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. But suddenly her look changed and deepened inscrutably. \"I'm not sure if I DO understand,\" she said. \"Is
She bowed her head, vanishing from him under her conniving hat-brim.
\"Why should we dream away another year? Look at me, dear! Don't you understand how I want you for my wife?\"
For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. But suddenly her look changed and deepened inscrutably. \"I'm not sure if I DO understand,\" she said. \"Is