hour later, still enfolding her and keeping her close to him in his
arms.

'Everywhere, to the ends of the earth. Where you are, I will be.'

'And you are not deceiving yourself, you know your parents will never
consent to our marriage?'

'I don't deceive myself; I know that.'

'You know that I'm poor--almost a beggar.'

'I know.'

'That I'm not a Russian, that it won't be my fate to live in Russia,
that you will have to break all your ties with your country, with your
people.'

'I know, I know.'

'Do you know, too, that I have given myself up to a difficult,
thankless cause, that I ... that we shall have to expose ourselves not
to dangers only, but to privation, humiliation, perhaps----'

'I know, I know all--I love you----'

'That you will have to give up all you are accustomed to, that out
there alone among strangers, you will be forced perhaps to work----'

She laid her hand on his lips. 'I love you, my dear one.'