I don't want to know anything about your past. It didn't include
me."
"Your faith is simple and beautiful now, Jim, but may there not come a
time when it will begin to inquire--when perhaps I might fret you?
Weariness is a close critic, Jim."
"You may teach me many things, Mary, but not to find fault. Look back to
your home in the town and think of what you are giving up for me--for a
life of toil among the hills."
She took hold of his arm and drew him close to her. "I am giving up cold
glitter for warm glow."
They turned aside to sit in the cool shade at the water-fall, and there
they found Tom and Lou, dreaming with their heads together. High above
there had been a heavy rain and the falls were pouring with such a roar
that there was no talk; but the four of them sat there on a great rock,
gazing at the rainbow hanging above the yellowish water. But when they
withdrew to a cove where it was quiet, Tom told Jim that he had put a
boy on a horse and sent him after a marriage license.
"When we come to think," said Mrs.
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