The Hidden Children by Robert William Chambers Chapter 15 Page 46

“For my happiness? Not for your own?”

“How can that come to me save when yours comes to you?”

“Oh!� I did not understand. I had not thought it mattered very greatly to men, so that they found their happiness — so that they found contentment in their sweethearts’ yielding� . Then my surrender would mean nothing to you unless I yielded happily?”

“Nothing. Good God! In what school have you learned of love!”

She nodded thoughtfully, looking me in the eyes.

“What you tell me, Euan, is pleasant to think on. It reassures and comforts; nay, it is the sweetest thing you ever said to me — that you could find no happiness in my yielding unless I yield happily� . Why, Euan, that alone would win me —