Excerpt from By the World Forgot: A Double Romance of the East and West
"For the last time, will you marry me?"
"No"
"But you don"t love him."
"No."
"And you do love me?"
"Yes."
"I don"t believe it."
"Would I be here if I did not?"
Now that adverb was rather indefinite. "Here" might have meant the private office, which was bad enough, or his arms, which was worse or better, depending upon the viewpoint. She could think of nothing better to dispel the reasonable incredulity of the man than to nestle closer to him, if that were possible, and kiss him. It was not a perfunctory kiss, either. It meant something to the woman, and she made it mean something to the man. Indeed, there was fire and passion enough in it to have quickened a pulse in a stone image. It answered its purpose in one way. There could be no real doubt in the man"s mind as to the genuineness of that love he had just called in question in his pique at her refusal.
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