"Are you—any nearer?"
"Sometimes I think so,—but so did he."
She rose slowly.
"I will go away," she said. "It would only disturb you to know I was here."
She moved a step upward and then paused uncertainly.
"You told me once," she said, "that there was no reason why I should not be as good and happy as any other woman. Are you sure of what you said?"
"For God's sake, do not doubt in that way," he said.
She stood looking down at him, one hand resting upon the balustrade, her dark eyes wild with some strange emotion.
"I lie awake at night a great deal," she said, "and I am always thinking of what has gone by. Sometimes—lately—I have wished that—I had forgiven her."
"I have wished so too," he answered.