"Thank you." Her hand pressed his arm. "And then we'll come back here. I want to come back here, Burke. It isn't--a land of strangers to me any more. It's just--the top of the world. Shall I tell you--would you like me to tell you--how we managed to get here?" His arm went round her. "I think I know." She turned her face to his. "By faith--and love, my darling," she said. "There is--no other way. You taught me that." He kissed her fervently, with lips that trembled. "I love you with my whole soul," he told her, with sudden passion. "God knows how I love you!" She gave herself to him with a little quivering laugh. "Do you know, partner," she said, "I wanted you to tell me that? I've been wanting it--for ever so long." And they were nearer to the stars above them in that moment than to the world that lay at their feet. THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Top of the World, by Ethel M. Dell