5/9 I do wish you were not going, Rachel. And it is such a comfort to be with some one who knows what one is going through. I believe you feel the suspense, too, for my sake." "I do feel it--deeply." "I sometimes think," said Lady Newhaven, her face aging suddenly under an emotion so disfiguring that Rachel's eyes fell before it--"I am sometimes almost certain that Edward drew the short lighter. Oh! do you think if he did he will really _act up to it_ when the time comes ?" "If he drew it he will certainly take the consequences." "Will he, do you think? |