The latter went to her with the word that he was to operate, provided she offered no objection.
"You know what an operation will mean, Anne," he said steadily.
"The end to his agony," she remarked.

Outwardly she was calm, inwardly she shivered.
"It is absurd to say that he has one chance in a million to pull through.
He hasn't a single chance.

I appreciate that fact and--so does he." "You are willing to do this thing, Braden ?" "I am willing," he said.

His face was like death.
"And if I should object, what then ?" she asked, almost inaudibly.
"I should refuse to operate.

I cannot pretend that an operation is the only means left to save his life.