"If you are happy enough to find a welcome."
"And you will see your mother again?"
He winced. "Yes. Do you know, it does not seem possible that I met you but two short weeks ago? I have never given much thought to this so-called reincarnation; but somewhere in the past ages I knew you; only …"
"Only what?"
"Only, you weren't going home to marry the other fellow."
She stopped at the rail. "Who knows?" she replied ruminatingly. "Perhaps I am not going to marry him."
"Don't you love him?… I beg your pardon, Miss Chetwood!"
"You're excused."
"I still need some training. I have been alone so much that I haven't got over the trick of speaking my thoughts aloud."
"No harm has been done. The fault lay with me."