Certainly, in any case, it cleared THAT air--I mean the dear old Roman, in which we were steeped.

It left the field free--it gave me a free hand.

There was no question for me of anybody else when I brought the two others together.

More than that, there was no question for them.

So you see," she concluded, "where that puts me." She got up, on the words, very much as if they were the blue daylight towards which, through a darksome tunnel, she had been pushing her way, and the elation in her voice, combined with her recovered alertness, might have signified the sharp whistle of the train that shoots at last into the open.