So, if you wish, you may come to see me in Naples if you happen to be there when we are.

I am sure after to-night that I may trust you, may I not?
But," she added, "perhaps you would not care.
I am treating you very frankly; but from your standpoint you would expect or excuse more frankness than if I were a young girl." "I care very much," he declared, "and it will be a happiness to me to see you on any footing, and you may trust me never to break bounds again." She made a motion as if to depart.
"Don't go just yet," he said pleadingly; "there is now no reason why you should for a while, is there?
Let us sit here in this gorgeous night a little longer, and let me smoke a cigar." At the moment he was undergoing a revulsion of feeling.

His state of mind was like that of an improvident debtor who, while knowing that the note must be paid some time, does not quite realize it for a while after an extension.

At last the cigar was finished.

There had been but little said between them.
"I really must go," she said, and he walked with her across the hanging bridge and down the deck to the gangway door.
"Where shall I address you to let you know when we shall be in Naples ?" she asked as they were about to separate.
"Care of Cook & Son," he said.