You can take me to her at once.

I am an old friend.

There is no occasion to carry in my name." He had scarcely thought of seeing Marian until this moment.

It was her husband he had come to seek; it was with him that his reckoning was to be made; and any meeting between Marian and himself was more likely to prove a hindrance to this reckoning than otherwise.

But the temptation to seize the chance of seeing her again was too much for him.