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Lucile

By Owen Meredith [i.e. E. R. B. Lytton]
  

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VIII.

‘You here!...I imagined you far on your way
‘To Bigorre!’...she exclaim'd. ‘What has caused you to stay?’

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‘I am on my way to Bigorre,’ he replied,
‘But, since my way would seem to be yours, let me ride
‘For one moment beside you.’ And then, with a stoop,
At her ear,...‘and forgive me!’