"An appeal!"
"He asked me to bring a message to you. I told him I would deliver any message entrusted to me. He wants you to know that he is very sorry for what has taken place. He admits that he has been in the wrong----"
"It is too late!" Alice in her emotion rose to her feet.
"And he asks you, through me," Kimberly spoke under a strain he did not wholly conceal, "if he may come back and let the past bury itself."
"It is too late."
"He said," Kimberly rose and faced Alice, "there had been differences about religion----"
"Ask him," she returned evenly, "whether I ever sought to interfere with his religious views or practices."
"These, he promises, shall not come between you again."
"Wretched man! His words are not the slightest guarantee of his conduct."
Kimberly took his hat from his head and wiped his forehead. "This was the message, Alice; is he to come back to you?"