7/18 Truly this was my motive rather than any thought of the property. That--that morning on the bench," she paused, her voice choking in her throat, her eyes misted, "why, I--I was scarcely rational; my mind could not even grasp clearly what you endeavored to tell. I was so far from being myself that I failed to recognize my own name. Perhaps that was not strange as I always lived under another. So it was not that, not any selfish motive, which impelled me to accompany you. |