He has acted from the deepest conviction, with the best conscience and after wakeful nights.

He'll recognise that he's fully responsible, and will consider that he has been highly successful; so that any discussion we may have will bring us quite together again--bridge the dark stream that has kept us so thoroughly apart.

We shall have at last, in the consequences of his act, something we can definitely talk about." She was silent a little.

"How wonderfully you take it! But you're always wonderful." He had a pause that matched her own; then he had, with an adequate spirit, a complete admission.

"It's quite true.