“How could I, when you had stolen it?”
“Blind man!”
“Not altogether.”
“What! You saw?”
“I saw the Pyramids. I see them still. I believed them to be unsurmountable after Brian’s death, but when you told me about Wilverley I knew somehow that it was not love that made you take him. But the Pyramids remain.”
She disengaged herself gently, raising rueful eyes to his.
“I had forgotten—Mother.”
“So had I, for one blessed minute.”
“What are we going to do?”
He answered decisively: