"If ... if I let you see her."
"Alone?"
"Mary!"
"Dick, I beg of you dear, to leave this to me. Alone, if you wish it, Colonel Graeme, for five minutes only."
"Half an hour."
There was a pause, while Mary's eyes rested unwaveringly on Graeme's face.
"Very well, half an hour. Will you promise me to go then?"
"Yes."
"Come then," and Mary passed out, leading the way upstairs to a closed door, where she stopped. "In there," she said. "I trust you," and left him.
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