'I love you!'
And she held up her lips to him again.
'After all,' she said, 'we're only human beings. We can't help it. I
think--'
She hesitated; what she was going to say had something of the
anti-climax in it.
'I think--it would be very silly if--if we threw ourselves in the horrid
canal.'
'Valentia, do you mean--?'