“From all delusions of vanity, self-love and proud thinking, good Lord, deliver me!”
The next morning she awoke, filled and fired with a new resolve. She had slept well and was strong in energy and spirit, and she determined, as she expressed it to herself, to “have it out” with Dr. Dimitrius. So after breakfast, when he was about to go to his laboratory as usual, she stopped him on the way.
“I want to speak to you,” she said. “Please give me a few moments of your time.”
“Now?” he queried, with a slight uplifting of his eyebrows.
She bent her head.
“Now!”
“In the library, then,” he said, and thither they went together.
On entering the room he closed the door behind them and stood looking at her somewhat quizzically.
“Well?”
“Well!” she echoed, slightly smiling. “Are you wondering what I want to say? You ought not to wonder at all,—you ought to know!”