"Gretchen，" I said， grasping her hands， "don't hurry to get me off—I'm not going back this morning—I don't know what was the matter with me last night—I know now that I love you—"
"Bat， Richard—last night you said—"
"I did say last night that I was going back early this morning， Gretchen， but I didn't know what I was talking about. I'm not going back now until you go with me. I'll tell you what I mean as Soon as breakfast is over. But first of all I wish. you would show me how to get down to the river. I have got to go down there right away and feel the water with my hands."