The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 15 Page 41

violently with hers, nor winced under my quick-closing grip.

“Is all now clear and plain between us, Euan?” she inquired. And it seemed to me that her eagerness and fervour rang false.

“You can not love me, then?” I asked in a low voice.

“I? What has love to do with us — here in the woods — and I without knowledge and experience — — ”

“You do not love me, then?”

“I can not.”

“Why?”

She made no answer, but bit her lip.

“You need not reply,” said I. “Yet — that night I left Otsego —