“To take me away!” she gasped.
“Impossible!”
“Look!”
He read the two lines of the telegram, which had been dispatched from Bordeaux. [[140]]
“Shall arrive four o’clock be ready to leave at once. Bregeac.”
Ralph considered the message and asked: “Have you written to tell him that you are here?”
“No: he must have come to the conclusion that I would come here.”
“And what are you going to do?” he asked.
“What can I do?”
“Refuse to go with him.”