"
She lifted her eyes to him, now cleared of their tears, and shining
with eagerness.
"I will do all you say," she said earnestly, "do it because I love you.
It shall not be for the people, the applause, the glitter and display,
but alone for you. Whenever a triumph comes to me, I shall meet it
whispering your name in my heart, knowing that you rejoice because I am
proving worthy of your faith. It will be as if we worked together; the
memory must help to make us both strong."
He bent lower, drew her closer to him, and held her thus in silence.
"Yes," he spoke at last, as though in thought, "I shall try to remember
and be patient, so long as you feel it must be so."
They were sitting there still, the barest glimmer of twilight
brightening the window above, their hands clasped, when Mercedes came
back, overflowing with light-heartedness.
"Si, si, sure I did eet," she announced happily, dancing forward into
the centre of the darkened room, and seemingly blind to the two before
her.
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