Silencieux had never said them. He kissed her again.
"I love you, Silencieux," he said. And then she spoke.
"If you love me, Antony," she said, "if you love me--"
"O what, Silencieux?" he cried, his heart growing cold once more.
"Come nearer, Antony. Put your ear to my lips--Antony, if you love
me--the human sacrifice."
"O God," he cried, "here in the sunlight--It is true--"
And, a man with the doom of his nature heavy upon him, he once more went
out into the wood.
CHAPTER XI
WONDER IN THE WOOD
A few days after this, little Wonder, playing about the garden, had
slipped away from her nurse, and, pleased in her little soul at her
cleverness, had found her way up to her father's chalet. Antony was
sitting at his desk, writing, with his door open.
"Daddy," suddenly came a little voice from the bottom of the staircase,
"Daddy, where are you?"
Antony rose and went to the door.
"Come in, little Wonder. Well, it is a clever girl to come all the way
up the wood by herself."
"Yes, Daddy," said the self-possessed little girl, as she toddled into
the chalet and looked round wonderingly at the books and pictures.
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