18/23 Oh, I tell you, Miss Forrest, a thousand evil powers seem to rend me when I attempt to do what I long for." "I shall trust in you," she cried. "Surely you are sufficiently interested in me to save me from a man like Voltaire ?" "Interested ?" I cried. "I would die for you, I love you so. And yet I can do nothing." "You can do something; you can do everything. You can save me from him." "Oh," I cried, "I know I must appear a pitiful coward to you. |