Venus and Cupid

The knowledge that I loved her rushed upon me with the terror, and with both emotions gripping at my heart and causing my blood at the same time to chill and to leap riotously. I felt myself drawn by a power without me and beyond me, and found my eyes returning against my will to gaze into the eyes of Wolf Larsen. But he had recovered himself. The golden color and the dancing lights were gone. Cold and gray and glittering they were as he bowed brusquely and turned away. ¡¡¡¡'I am afraid,' she whispered, with a shiver. 'I am so afraid.' ¡¡¡¡I, too, was afraid, and, what of my discovery of how much she meant to me, my mind was in a turmoil; but I succeeded in answering quite calmly: 'All will come right, Miss Brewster. Trust me; it will come right.' ¡¡¡¡She answered with a grateful little smile that sent my heart pounding, and started to descend the companion-stairs.