6/27 But his levies would have barred the road. No, this was the only chance: to come away to Bombay, to write to her that the first day, the first night she is able to slip out and travel here she will find me waiting." Mrs.Repton was satisfied. But while he had been speaking a new fear had entered into her. He is just the sort of man not to divorce his wife." Thresk raised his head. Clearly that possibility had no more occurred to him than it had to Jane Repton. |