One was to be read immediately, the other when I was found--and I had found myself.

Maybe it wasn't exactly fair, but you couldn't expect two women to resist a temptation like that.

And--_I wanted to know_." She did not lower her eyes or turn her head aside as she made the confession.

Her gaze met Alan's with beautiful steadiness.
"And then I believed.

I knew, because of what you said in that letter, that you were the one man in all the world who would help me and give me a fighting chance if I came to you.