"This is only the beginning.

I don't expect you to realise all that I have realised quite so quickly, but I do want you to keep it in your mind that this thing has come and that it can't be got rid of.

I won't do anything foolish.
If it is necessary I will wait, but I am your lover now, as I always must be." He handed her into the car, the footman, in his long white livery, standing somberly on one side.

As they drove off she gave him her fingers, and he walked back up the steps with the smile upon his lips that comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime..