Part 35 (1/2)
”If she is,” he answered, ”I am convinced that there are circue which would make a divorce easy”
”You would marry a divorcee?” she asked
”I would marry your sister anyhow, under any circumstances,” he answered
She looked at him curiously
”I want to ask you a question,” she said abruptly ”This wonderful affection of yours forwith her in Paris?”
He hesitated
”I admired your sister in Paris,” he answered, ”but I do not believe that I regard her now as altogether the sae her marvellously, either that, or she wilfully deceived me and every one else in those days as to her real self She was aand coreat difference I wonder whether you would lance at her, ”if I tell you that you yourself rereat deal more of what she was like then, except of course that your coether different”
”I ahly flattered,” she remarked, with subtle irony
”Will you help me?” he asked
”What can I do?”
”Go and see her Find out what I have done or failed to do Get me an intervieith her”
”Really,” she said, with a hard little laugh, ”you ood-natured person”
”You are,” he answered unconsciously ”I am sure that you are I want her to tell e We will find some way out of it”
”You think that you can do that?”
”I as are arranged land At any rate she ht Ihas come between us that she should treat me as a lover one day and a st the cushi+ons of her chair She was very pale, but she reminded him more at that minute than at any time of ”Alcide”
as he had first known her
”I wonder,” she said, ”how much you care”
”I care as a man cares only once in his life,” he answered pro it”
”Did it come--in Paris?”
”I do not know,” he answered ”I do not think so What does it matter?
It is here, and it is here to stay Do help hall You need not be afraid No trouble will ever coe is binding then I will be her friend But I have powerful friends I only want to know the truth, and I will move heaven and earth to have it set aside”
”The truth,” she murmured, with her eyes fixed upon him ”Well----”
She stopped short He looked at her in soive me,” he said, ”but I want to hear it from your sister It is her duty to tellto work upon your sympathies to learn her secrets”