25/34 I think that perhaps it might suit him to make me his wife. Such an arrangement, however, would not suit me. I am not going to be frightened into marrying a man, because he has been falsely called my lover. If I cannot escape the calumny in any other way, I will not escape it in that way." "Has he said anything ?" "No; not a word. I have not seen him since the day after Lord Ongar's funeral. |