"Yes, yes, I will!" I cried—because Dick had worked himself up to such a fury that I saw that he meant what he said.
"I shall know fast enough whether you keep your word or not," he growled. "And if you don't, you understand just what you have to expect."
If I hadn't given in to Ellaline! I ought to have known that nothing but trouble could come of it. Yet no—I won't wish it undone. I can't! No matter what happens, I shall never really regret what gave me the chance of meeting a man like Sir Lionel. I don't think there is another in the world. And to-morrow I am to have the honour of informing him that I'm in love with that little worm, Dick Burden. Having seen the sun, I love a flicker of phosphorus on a sulphur match.
Do write me the minute you get this, won't you? No, telegraph if you can think of anything consoling to say. Poste Restante, Chester.
Your frightened and loving
Audrie.
XXX
AUDRIE BRENDON TO HER MOTHER
Aberystwith,