"When are you going?"
"Now!"
"But it may not be best to go at this time."
"It is always best to go where you are!"
"Monsieur, do not throw away your future on an unconsidered move."
"Madame, I will throw away my eternity!"
Then I went back through the tunnel to the beach, stripped, and took a plunge to clear my head and warm my blood, rubbing off with my shirt.
On reaching my room the first thing I did was to make a bundle of everything I considered necessary and desirable. There was no reason for doing this before lying down; but with an easier mind I closed my eyes; and opened them to find sunset shining through the windows, and Doctor Chantry keeping guard in an arm-chair at my side.
"Nature has taken her revenge on you, my lad," said he. "And now I am going to take mine."
"I have slept all day!"