"Why not? How do you know what you'd be mad enough to do if you got your memory back and found you'd tied yourself to me?"
"There's a very simple way out of that. Even if you wish me to marry you, we need not live together. I should give you an allowance and you could go your way and I mine, if you preferred it."
For some reason which beat me this seemed to appeal strongly to her. She sat thinking, and there was something of her previous day's emotion in her look as she asked: "Do you mean that?"
"You little know me if you doubt it, Anna."
She got up impulsively to stare out of the window as she had done before, and after a long pause she turned. "Look here, come to-morrow."
I looked intently at her and read something in her face that gave me fresh hope. "Why not to-day? You have made up your mind, I can see that; so why not tell me now?"
She shook her head. "Not to-day. To-morrow."
"Why?"
"I can't tell you why. Don't ask me."
"But I do ask you. I beg you as earnestly as I can."