5/11 It is my place, knowing these things, to see that she does not make a fatal mistake. All that I say to you, Mr.De la Borne, is to let her go, to give her her chance, to let her see with both eyes before she does anything irremediable. I think that I may almost appeal to you, as a reasonable man and a gentleman, to help me in this." Andrew de la Borne looked out through the wizened branches of his stunted trees, to the white-flecked sea rolling in below. |