“See you. I jumped then—I was not even shaken. Sheppard, disregarding the taunt, "come away. I must stay a minute longer, if only to see you smile. And when I ask you why it is you do so, you have no answer. “I want,” he said, with a white hand outstretched, “to take you out to tea. ’ ‘But it is stupide. . “I am going to break a covenant,” he cried.