"You mean," he asked, "that you would have let it go on as we were?"
"Yes."
"Meeting only once in a while?"
"Of course!"
"And that would have satisfied you?"
"Satisfied? No, Jim. But that would be all we could have."
"Then I am glad we were seen!" he cried. "I couldn't have gone on that way. Now we shall have to act."
"Act? What do you mean?"
"This," answered Jim. "Everything has got to stop for me, anyway. I'm—I'm in trouble. Ellis——" and he stopped to curse.
"Don't, don't!" she begged him. "Explain; I don't understand."