She shook her head.
“We may just as well have our talk afterwards,” she said, “and I need not keep poor Mr. Earles waiting.”
Courtlaw suddenly interposed.
“May I be allowed to say,” he declared, “that I came here with the same intention.”
“And I also,” Brendon echoed.
Anna was suddenly very quiet.
She was perhaps as near tears as ever before in her life.
“If I had three hands,” she said, with a faint smile, “I would give one to each of you. I know that you are all my friends, and I know that you all have very good advice to give me. But I am afraid I am a shockingly obstinate and a very ungrateful person. No, don’t let me call myself that. I am grateful, indeed I am. But on this matter my mind is quite made up.”
Ennison hesitated for a moment.