Shall I write to her--there is just time now, before I start--take the lofty tone, the equal masculine tone, which I have noticed she likes ?--ask her pardon for an act of madness--before we go together to the rescue of a life?
It might do--it might go down.

But no, I think not! Let the situation develop itself.

Action and reaction--the unexpected--I commit myself to that.

_She_--marry Aldous Raeburn in a month?
Well, she may--certainly she may.

But there is no need for me, I think, to take it greatly into account.