Enoch had risen with Diana, and now he came around the fire and put his hands on her shoulders.  “No!  No!  Diana! not my weaknesses keep us apart, bitterly as they mortify me.”

Diana looked up at him steadily.  “Enoch, your great weakness is not gambling.  Who cares whether you play cards or not?  No one but Brown!  But your weakness is that you have let those early years and Luigi’s vicious stories warp your vision of the sweetest thing in life.”

“Diana!  I thought you understood.  My mother—­”

“Don’t!” interrupted Diana, quickly.  “Don’t!  I understand and because I do, I tell you that you are warped.  You are America’s only real statesman, the man with a vision great enough to mold ideals for the nation.  Still you are not normal, not sane, about yourself.”

Enoch dropped his hands from her shoulders and stood staring at her sadly.

“I thought you understood!” he whispered, brokenly.

Diana wrung her hands, turned and walked swiftly toward a neighboring heap of rocks whose shadows swallowed her.  Enoch breathed hard for a moment, then followed.  He found Diana, a vague heap on a great stone, her face buried in her hands.  Enoch sat down beside her and took her in his arms.

“Sweetheart,” he whispered, “what have I done?”

Diana, shaken by dry sobs, did not reply.  But she put her arms about his neck and clung to him as though she could never let him go.  Enoch sat holding her in an ecstasy that was half pain.  Dusk thickened into night and the stars burned richly above them.  Enoch could see that Diana’s face against his breast was quiet, her great eyes fastened on the desert.  He whispered again,

“Diana, what have I done?”

“You have made me love you so that I cannot bear to think of the future,” she replied.  “It was not wise of us to take this trip together, Enoch.”

Enoch’s arms tightened about her.  “We’ll be thankful all our lives for it, Diana.  And you haven’t really answered my question, darling!”

Diana drew herself away from him.  “Enoch, let’s never mention the subject again.  The things you understand by weakness—­why, I don’t care if you have a thousand of them!  But, dear, I want the diary.  When you leave El Tovar, leave that much of yourself with me.”

Enoch’s voice was troubled.  “I have been so curiously lonely!  You can have no idea of what the diary has meant to me.”

“I won’t ask you for it, Enoch!” exclaimed Diana.  Suddenly she leaned forward in the moonlight and kissed him softly on the lips.

Enoch drew her to him and kissed her fiercely.  “The diary!  It is yours, Diana, yours in a thousand ways.  When you read it, you will understand why I hesitated to give it to you.”

“I’ll find some way to thank you,” breathed Diana.

“I know a way.  Give me some of your desert photographs.  Choose those that you think tell the most.  And don’t forget Death and the Navajo.”