"Is that all?"
"It's very nearly all; but there is something more. He said one day when we were talking intimately—we always seemed to talk intimately when we were together—that if ever I was in trouble, I was to remember him."
"How extraordinary!"
"Yes, it was. I reminded him of it when we met again. That was the year I was going out with Marie de Nohant, just before George and I were married."
"And what did he say then?"
"That he repeated the request."
"Extraordinary!" Mrs. Eveleth commented again. "Are you going to do anything about it?"
"I've thought of it," Diane admitted, "but I don't believe I can."
"Wouldn't it be a pity to neglect so good an opportunity?"
"It might rather be a pity to avail one's self of it. There are things in life too pleasant to put to the test."