"Were you?"
"You may regard that also as true!" He set his jaw, and looked at
her straight. Their eyes met, steadily, seeking, searching. They
now again, opposed, stood on the firing lines as he had said.
"But you told me,--" she began.
"I told you nothing, if you will remember. I only said that, if
you could feel as I did, I'd let the heavens fold as a scroll
before I'd ask a word about your past. I'd begin all the world all
over again, right here. So far as I am concerned, I wouldn't even
care about the law. But you're not so lawless as I am. And
somehow, I've got to thinking--a little--of your side of things."
"The law does not prevent me from doing as I like," she replied.
It was agony that showed on his face at this.
"That demands as much from me, if I play fair with you," he said
slowly. "Suppose there was some sort of law that held me back?"
"I have not observed any vast restraint in you!"
"Not at first. Haven't you gained any better opinion?"
She was one of those able to meet a question with silence.
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