"Very well. Go into the sitting-room and I'll listen."
"I'll follow you," I replied drily; and with a laugh and a shrug she led the way to her room.
"You seem almost as eager to marry me now as you were before to get out of it," she scoffed.
It was an unpromising start, for she was in a very different mood from that of the previous day. "If you think a moment of all that this must mean to me, of my desperate anxiety to know the truth about the past and to see what lies ahead, you'll understand it all, Anna;" and I went on for a few moments in that style endeavouring to re-establish the former relations and work on her emotions.
"I haven't had enough time to think about it," she replied. "Of course it takes a lot of thinking about."
"Does that mean you are not sure I am the man who wronged you?"
"Why should it, pray?"
"Well, you said that you had been mistaken about the child."
"I may have said that for a purpose. You got the soft side of me yesterday, and—— But I tell you I haven't made up my mind."
"You haven't altered your opinion about my being an honourable man and wishing to do the right thing, I hope?" and I did my best to draw a vivid picture of my state of mind and appeal to her good nature.