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"I love you," he said. Only three words, but only a woman can understand what those three words meant to Stella. She was a girl--a mere child, as Lady Wyndward had said; never, save from her father's lips, had she heard those words before. Even now she scarcely realized their full meaning. She only knew that his hand was upon her arm; that his eyes were fixed on hers with a passionate, pleading entreaty, combined with a masterful power which she felt unable to resist. White and almost breathless she stood, not down…