And if you won't, I must stay alone.

If you insist on going away, I'll get out and stand in the street, either until Ivor Dundas has come, or until I'm sure he isn't coming.

But how much better to wait and see for yourself." "You know I can't go off and leave you standing here," I answered.

"And I can't leave you sitting in the carriage, and walk through the streets alone.

I might meet--" I would not finish my sentence, but Lisa must nave guessed the name on my lips.
"The only thing to do, then, is for us to stop where we are, together," said Lisa, "for stop I must and shall, in justice to myself, to Ivor Dundas and to you.