“You are still dreaming of the impossible. I have shewn her most of your old letters to me.”
“Then you had better tell your Russian employers how you have succeeded in wrecking their schemes.”
She paused in considerable embarrassment.
“You must have some other aim, however,” I continued. “You have contradicted yourself. You said at first that I still had influence with her: now that you have kept your word and broken her trust in me; and yet that you need my help. You will not be surprised that I find it difficult to believe you at all—except as a power for mischief and wrong.”
“You do not seem to realise her peril.”
“And you do not explain your inconsistency.”
“I will make it all plain to her.”
“So that I may go to counsel her to marry another man. I will not.”
“Not even to save her life?”
“You said that before. I will find means to save her life, if it should be really in danger.”