“What is it Ursula?” he asked anxiously, “are you ill?”
She shook her head.
“No, I have had a shock. I have just remembered some thing. Won’t you please forgive me?”
She turned from him quickly and ran out of the room, leaving Tab a prey to various emotions. He waited for fully a quarter of an hour before she reappeared. She was still pale, but she was calm and her first words were an apology.
“The truth is,” she said with a faint smile, “I am a nervous wreck.”
“What was it I said that upset you?”
“I don’t know. You talked about the will and it brought it all back,” she said hurriedly.
“Ursula, you are not speaking the truth. Accidentally I must have said something that horrified you. What was it?”
She shook her head.
“I am telling you the truth, Tab,” she said, and in her distress, dropped the prefix.