"Preparing a place FOR ME! You have prepared a place for me and I
have taken it. My place is with you."

"Gabriella, do you know I have not a dollar in the world?"

"_I_ have!"

"But--"

"Ah, don't! don't! That would be the first time you had ever
wounded me!"

"How can I--"

"How can you go away and leave me here--here--anywhere--alone--
struggling in the world alone? And you somewhere else alone? Lose
those years of being together? Can you even bear the thought of it?
Ah, I did not think this!"

"It was only because--"

"But it shall never be! I will not be separated from you!"

David remembered a middle-aged man at the University, working his
way through college with his wife beside him. His heart melted in
joy and tenderness--before the possibility of life with her so
near. He could not speak.

"I will never be separated from you!"