I looked very grave. "It is about you and----"
I paused and appeared reluctant to speak of it. "I tried very hard to arrange so that---- You will give me credit for having done my best in your interests, I'm sure; but----"
"What is it?" she cried impatiently.
I sighed and then asked hesitatingly: "It was made a sort of condition you know, and although he was willing to leave everything else to you, I couldn't get any relief."
"But what is it?" she cried again.
"I scarcely like to---- It's so difficult that---- But I'm afraid you'll have to--to give in. You know how hard I tried to save you from that--well, from von Felsen; but--I don't like putting it on the ground that it would help me; but it would really mean that. Would that marriage----?" I paused as if in great embarrassment.
"Tell me. This is cruel," she said quickly.
"Could you make the sacrifice?"
"You said he had left the country."
"I wasn't speaking of----"