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128 "I knew that we should be friends," I concluded lamely.

I caught a glimpse of her face, and across it there swept a look that reminded me then of the sun leaving a landscape.

"What I just said is utterly false, Hilda, only I was so horribly afraid," I said facing her. "I have never even thought of you in friendship. From the first moment I saw you I knew that, whoever you were, you were the woman who had been growing in my heart ever since my world began."

The sunshine returned radiantly. That is how we come to be spending our honeymoon at Nymph Aurelia.

Ravenscourt Park, 1909.