“It's incredible!”
“It's true. He's a new man. I think his reformation is the real thing. He's young. He's strong. He has brains. He has personality——”
Mary lifted her hand.
“All I ask of him is to keep out of my sight. The world is big enough for us both. The past is now a nightmare. If I live to be a hundred years old, with my dying breath I shall feel the grip of his fingers on my throat——”
She paused and closed her eyes.
“Forget it! Forget it!” the Doctor laughed. “We have more important things to think of now.”
“He wishes to see me?”
“Begs every day that I ask you.”
“And you have hesitated these long weeks?”
“Your strength and peace of mind were of greater importance than his happiness, my dear. Let him wait until you please to see him.”