Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World

ald, "that I am wearying

nd hoped he would not stop. But he said he had some duties to attend t

e the doctor looked at

so queerly when

ply. "And how could you tell Thorwald

o have me tell

e subject till we could consult in regard to it. If we are going to color our narr

onfirmed in my suspicion that your brain

the task, but I saw it would not be safe to leave him any longer in ignorance of his conditio

t it from our new friends here, and I thought I had better tell you how you are, so you can be a little cautious. You talk all right on most subjects, b

ough, but the doctor laughed

you are crazy, and I can prove it. I will just ask you one que

hat only proves your own madness? No, I d

"I never expected to see you get

my infatuation, as

e, I sho

tell me more. Is this Mona of yours the sole resi

ust be out of your head to call her

o?" I

speak to her. You tried to keep your jealousy from me,

y laughable,

ry to bring it all back to you by anothe

and harsh, or was it squeaky? I cannot imagine anything very pleasant in

as to the outside, but you for

f these strange notions the better So tell me your recollections of

se, when we found ourselves rushi

er day, more dead than alive I think, until, fortunat

ed on following her nod, and she led us at once through a narrow path down into the center of the moon. Here, in her quiet home, we taught her to sing in our language-her only speech was song-and the first words she used were to say she loved me. She did not understand what the words meant, of course, but you looked as if you wished I had been blown away before Mona had discovered

which you are noted, you will be convinced that this is only a pretty little fairy tale which has somehow taken possession of a corner of your brain. Now that the fairy is gone you must try to

and atmosphere had all run down there, making it

head, and I will prove it to you again by showing you how impossible is the part which I play in your romance. I will tell you now, wha

sked the doctor. "A

nd if I ever see her again I shall tell her

t she unders

thought I didn't show he

d learn that you have plenty of heart when the

I wouldn't once look at another woman anywhere, not even in Mars, and most cer

I think about you?

N

of that fair singer fell on your ear, and now you have forgotten the singer again the moment

said I, "if you think I shal

l, I shall be willing to wager a fair young planet aga

ion, and I do not seem to be curing it very fast. I suppose, because your mind is naturally so s

rk of my imagination. Isn't it more reasonable to believe that you could fo

. You do not know me. If your vagaries had taken any other d

und our way to the deck again. Here there were various things to attract our attention, different members of the crew being eager to show us about. The doctor asked some question in regard to the

n injured a little in his fall, and he imagines and asserts with positiveness that w

ny inhabitants at a

auty, and plainly intimates that I was rather too attentive to her. You will see what a convincing proof this is of his unsound condition when I tell you I am engaged to the best woman on

the future Thorwald and I would sympathize with each other in commiserating the doctor. But I afterward learned that

irely forgotten the best of our experience in the moon. Queer, too, for he fell in love with the only and

at the close he promised he would not pay much attention t

rom the earth was of unsettled mind and which in his normal conditio