'To speak with you and to try to help you, my child, that was all.'
'But you told me very little yesterday. I am not sure that I understood. You need not be afraid to tell me anything. I can bear anything.'
'Will you ask me what you wish to know, Thyrza?'
'You say you persuaded him—and yet that you said good of me.'
The other waited.
'Didn't he come from America, to see me?'
'He did.'
'You mean that he came because he thought it was right to. I understand. And when you told him that I was not thinking of him, he—he felt himself free?'
'Yes.'
'Do you think—is it likely that he will ever wish to see me now?'