Dr Finlay's Casebook (37 page)

‘Today he proposed to me, and I refused him.’

A start ran through his entire body. He dared not breathe. Then, his heart leaping into his throat, he came towards her.

Though he did not, could not speak, his love for her was written openly in his face, and at that sight she cried, with a little, choking sob—

‘Oh, my dear, don’t you know that it is you – that it always has been and always will be you?’

The next instant she was in his arms.

A melting tenderness filled his soul, his whole heart sang with a wild and matchless joy. He knew that the crowning glory of his life had been achieved.