“Won’t you consent, for her sake?” Hugh said. “She would ask you to if she could.”
“Perhaps she is asking you to?” Angela whispered.
Half a moment beat out in silence. Then Stephen said—
“Yes, Hugh, I’ll do it—and thank you both—I’ll do it for Mrs. Latham’s sake—and for Mother’s.” He held out his thin hand—Hugh gripped it. But Angela bent swiftly over Stephen—and kissed him.
THE END
Minor printer errors have been corrected without note. Inconsistency in hyphenation has been retained. Other errors have been corrected as noted below:
On page 193 of the book, Paul Latham was used as a name for Dr. Latham.
In all other locations in the book, he was named Horace.