t let us begin by discussing these things don t keep on reminding me that i am not in love with you don t let anybody else know that i am not the most jealous and sensitive and feather headed bride that ever made her friends uncomfortable don t treat me as if we were anything out of the ordinary you will please me so much more if you will always assume both to me and to others that i am everything that you desire because you know i truly am very fond of you i like you immensely he caught hold of her and held her against his breast margaret he said you don t know you don t mean it but every word you utter is like a knife thrust into my very heart if you loved me even a little you could not tell me that you liked me immensely i will do anything that you wish the least little desire of yours shall be gratified if it is in my power to do so but don t tell anybody a woman that you like me immensely because if you do you will give yourself away and me too then said margaret i will not tell anybody bow much or how little i like you after all it matters nothing to anybody but you and me does it and now if you please i should like to go out for i had no sleep last night and i am just for a breath of air come let us take a walk in the park of course will he answered but before we go for our very first step into the world together i want you to kiss me the request almost upset everything almost all that his waiting had brought about for a moment the of feeling was so great that margaret felt she could not do it in one brief moment a hundred recollections of swept like a flood into her mind the thought of how often he had drawn her arms up to his neck and had her kiss him instantly not and as a favour as this man did but and with a tone of absolute command which to her had been sweetness itself but it was only for a moment that she hesitated with the passing of a few seconds of time the dull and heavy thought came back to her � that she had set herself to run a certain course that she had put her hand to the plough from which there could be no looking back that as she was going to marry this man there could be there should be there must be no half measures so and yet with a heart like a stone she raised her face to his and did his bidding still even blinded by love as he was could not shut his eyes to the fact that it was a favour done only at bis bidding he caught her to him and kissed her passionately a dozen times at least margaret he said you are quite sure that you do not in your heart hate me i am sure that i do not hate you she said looking at him steadily and answering without hesitation you don t dislike me even oh no you would not have kissed me of your own free will he went on you only did so because i asked you i believe he added slowly that it was almost to you a swift shiver ran through the slight frame you must not think that she said putting her hands on to his shoulders and looking straight into his eyes you cannot think that � you may not i have promised to marry you i like you very much and because i cannot be quite sure whether i love you or rather whether i am in love with you or not you must not imagine that you are to me oh what a horrible idea truly i think that you owe me an apology for it said he i humbly and with all my heart � i kiss the hem of your garment i am a beggar who ought to be kicked but don t visit it on me margaret i cannot myself any further before you there there she said soothingly you are too much in earnest i am not worth it come let us go out do not let us quarrel on our very first day together so it was she who him back into a happy and pleasant frame of mind i will not be two minutes she said when leaving him two minutes just to put on my hat she disappeared with a wave of her hand and two minutes later came back again with a dainty white sailor hat upon her head and a pair of tan coloured gloves in her hand do i look she asked as she entered the pretty oh my dear exclaimed he almost choked at the thought did she look � she the fairest woman he had ever seen in his life you look he said aloud i am so proud of going out with you i only hope that i shall not run against the lamp posts or knock some old lady into the because i shall have all my eyes for you and only you oh don t be so romantic she exclaimed i am afraid if ou begin so very high that there may come a dreadful day when you don t care to be seen with me at all when you never want to look at me and when you are more likely to run against some lamp post or some person in your eagerness to get out of my road than because you have no eyes for anybody but me margaret you don t think so he took her words quite seriously well no perhaps 