“Well?”
“Since I returned from Cambridge I have wanted to see you so often and so intensely that it seemed to me a capital opportunity for finding out if that iron control had at all relaxed.... I am pleased to say that it has not done so.”
“But you wanted to see me?”
“I did.”
“Then what on earth was there to keep you from coming to visit me?”
“Nothing at all except this—my own desire to be complete master of myself—greater even than my desire to see you.”
“Why did you want to see me?”
“I could think of no sensible reason for desiring to see you, and that was why I decided not to.”
“Are you glad I have come now?”
“No. I am sorry. You have interrupted my work.”