"Yes. I will go—leave the house at once. I could not stay."
She looked round as if the walls were closing in on her.
Wolfer knit his brows perplexedly.
"I—I do not like the idea of your going. Where will you go?"
"Home," she said; and the word struck across her heart and almost sent the tears to her eyes.
He went to the window and came back again.
"If—if you think it best," he said doubtfully. "I know that—that it must be painful to you to remain here, that the associations of this house——"
"Yes—yes," said Nell, almost impatiently.
"I need not say—indeed, I know that I need not—that no word of—of what has occurred this morning will ever pass my lips," he said in a low voice.
Nell looked up swiftly.