CHAPTER 11.
It was a long time before Mrs Gildea received an answer to her letter.
She had begun to despair of ever getting another line from Colin McKeith, when at last he wrote from Moongarr, six months later.
MY DEAR JOAN, Your letter has made me think.

I could not write before for reasons that you'll gather as you go along.

I shall do as you ask and tell you everything as straightly and plainly as I can.

I feel it is best that you should know exactly the sort of conditions I'm under and what a woman would have had to put up with if she had been with me--what she would have to put up with if she were going to be with me.

Then you can judge whether or not I'm right in the decision I have come to as the result of my thinkings.