“There are only two things I can do. One is to take you in my arms and kiss you until you love me as much as I love you, or secondly to disappear so that you will never see me again.”
“But I do want to see you again – ”
It was something she had not meant to say.
Yet somehow the words came into her lips and she could not prevent herself.
“My darling, my sweet one. You are everything I knew you would be if only I could find you. But now I know if I was to behave properly, I would go away and you would never have to think about me again.”
“But where would you go and what would you do?”
“Does it really matter? As far as I am concerned, the sooner I am dead the better!”
“That is a wicked thing to say,” she asserted, “and I am surprised you can be so faint-hearted.”
He looked at her
