"So I think," said Grantley quietly. "And you accept that?"
"No, I acknowledge no responsibility—not a jot."
"Well, leave the question of responsibility. But it's your will that this shall happen sooner than that you should leave this man?"
"Sooner than that I should come back to you, that life of ours begin again, and Frank grow up to a knowledge of it!"
"And it's my will, sooner than that he should grow up to a knowledge of how his mother ended it. That's settled then?"
"It's no bargain!" she protested fiercely. "You have settled it."
"But it is settled?" he persisted.
"If you do it, may God never pardon you!"
"Perhaps. But you know that it is settled?"
She made no answer.