you."

"Stop! For God's sake, stop!" said Anthony. "I am a brute to have spoken
like that, and I'm helpless; that's the worst of it. Oh! my darling,
don't you understand? Don't you understand----?"

"No," answered Barbara, shaking her head and beginning to cry.

"That I love you, that I have always loved you, and that I always shall
love you until--until--the moon ceases to shine?" and he pointed to that
orb which had appeared above the sea.

"They say that it is dead already, and no doubt will come to an end like
everything else," remarked Barbara, seeking to gain time.

Then for a while she sought nothing more, who found herself lost in her
lover's arms.



So there they plighted their troth, that was, they swore, more enduring
than the moon, for indeed they so believed.

"Nothing shall part us except death," he said.

"Why should death part us?" she answered, looking him bravely in the
eyes. "I mean to live beyond death, and while I live and wherever I live
death shall _not_ part us, if you'll be true to me."

"I'll not fail in that," he answered.