Did I not say that we were like two lost souls wandering alone in the mist?
It was only when I rose to bid her good-night that she referred to Dale.
"I wrote to him this afternoon," she announced curtly.
"You said you would do so." "Would you like to know what I told him ?" She put her hands behind her back and stood facing me, somewhat defiantly, in all her magnificence.

I smiled.

Women, much as they scoff at the blindness of our sex, are often transparent.
"It's your firm determination to tell me," said I."Well ?" She advanced a step nearer to me, and looked me straight in the eyes defiantly.
"I told him that I loved you with all my heart and all my soul.

I told him that you didn't know it; that you didn't care a brass curse for me; that you had acted as you thought best for the happiness of himself and me.

I told him that while you lived I could not think of another man.
I told him that if you could face Death with a smile on your face, he might very well show the same courage and not chuck things right and left just because a common woman wouldn't marry him or live with him and spoil his career.