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And this experience of being first and most to him made everything
so golden, and life so rich, and still I thought of it only as an
unusually delightful friendship. But the evening of my arrival at
Shenstone he asked me to come out on to the terrace after dinner, as
he wanted specially to talk to me. Deryck, I thought it was the
usual proceeding of making a confidante of me, and that I was to
hear details of his intentions regarding Miss Lister. Thinking that,
I walked calmly out beside him; sat down on the parapet, in the
brilliant moonlight, and quietly waited for him to begin. Then--oh,
Deryck! It happened."
Jane put her elbows on her knees, and buried her face in her clasped
hands.
"I cannot tell you--details. His love--it just poured over me like
molten gold. It melted the shell of my reserve; it burst through the
ice of my convictions; it swept me off my feet upon a torrent of
wondrous fire. I knew nothing in heaven or earth but that this love
was mine, and was for me.


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