"Then, if you love me," said she, speaking quickly, with an altered voice; "if you feel as if, to use your own words, you could 'grow to my heart,' it will be neither shock nor pain for you to know that _that_ heart is the source whence yours was filled; that from _my_ veins issued the tide which flows in _yours_; that you are _mine_--my daughter--my own child."

"Then, if you love me," said she, "it will be neither shock nor pain for you to know that from my veins issued the blood which flows in yours; that you are mine - my daughter - my own child."
