"Ban, I've been undergoing a ugg boots clearance sale solemn preachment."
     "From whom?"
     "Archie."
     "Is Densmore here?"
     "No; he came over to Philadelphia to deliver it."
     "About us?"
     She nodded. "Don't take it so gloomily. It was to be expected."
     He frowned. "It's on my mind all the time; the danger to you."
     "Would you end it?" she said softly.
     "Yes."
     Too confident to misconstrue his reply, she let her hand fall on his, waiting.
     "Io, how long will it be, ugg boots sale clearance with Eyre? Before--"
     "Oh; that!" The brilliance faded from her eager loveliness. "I don't know. Perhaps a year. He suffers abominably, poor fellow."
     "And after--after _that_, how long before you can marry me?"
     She twinkled at him mischievously. "So, after all these years, my lover makes me an offer of marriage. Why didn't you ask me at Manzanita?"
     "Good God! ugg boots on clearance Would it possibly--"
     "No; no! I shouldn't have said it. I was teasing."
     "You know that there's never been a moment when the one thing worth living and fighting and striving for wasn't you."
     "And success?" she taunted, but with tenderness.
     "Another name for you. I wanted it only as the reflex of your wish for me."
     "Even when I'd left ugg boots sale you?"
     "Even when you'd left me."
     "Poor Ban!" she breathed, and for a moment her fingers fluttered at his cheek. "Have I made it up to you?"
     He bent over the long, low chair in which she half reclined. "A thousand times! Every day that I see you; every day that I think of you; with the lightest touch ugg boots sale of your hand; the sound of your voice; the turn of your face toward me. I'm jealous of it and fearful of it. Can you wonder that I live in a torment of dread lest something happen to bring it all to ruin?"