"To make an extreme comparison, frozen mercury is warm beside you, Walter.
If you are really to be loyal knight of mine I must send you on a quest
for your heart."
"Ah, I supposed it was understood that I had given it to you."
"I have never seen it," she continued, "and you have never before said as
much as is contained in those last words. Here we are, talking of many
things we shall do after we are married, and yet you have nothing to say
of all that wonderful and beautiful world of romance that ought to come
before marriage. Is this voyage to come to an end and mean no more to us
than to these hundreds of passengers around us, who seem only intent to
get back to their work at the earliest possible moment? And is our wedding
day to approach and pass and be looked upon merely as part of the
necessary and becoming business of our lives? In short, am I never to hear
a real love note?"
"Margaret, I have a sister. You know something of the depth of my
affection for her. When I meet her in New York to-morrow or next day, if I
should throw my arms around her neck and exclaim, in impassioned tones,
'My sister, I love you,' what would she think of me?"
"She would think you had left your senses on the other side," replied
Margaret, laughing.
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