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me long. No, do not protest. How can you say what will be a year hence?''
"I do not know that I will be alive a year henceor a month, for that matter, but while I live I will love you."
"Simon, I do not dare. You do not really know me or my kind. I am a whole being. If I give you the heart out of my body and you lose it, I will die."
He began to say that no one died of a broken heart, but he was looking into her strange, clear eyes. Quite suddenly Simon realized that Rhiannon could, just as certain hawks could die when captured although most of their kind were readily tamed, will herself to death. This put a new light on Rhiannon's resistance. Simon was in no doubt about his own feelings. This was the first woman he had ever loved, and he was sure he would love her forever. He knew she was in no danger from a change in his heart, but how to convince hernot to love him but to trust himwas different. Time could convince her, but he had no time. She was very lovely, and it was very hard to wait.

 
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