He loosened his grip on her; but now she caught and held his hand.
“I do love Jimmy, and you know it when you aren’t mad. But I care for you, too, and I am not going to lose you. If you went away while Jimmy was out here I should never see you again. You would disappear. Perhaps you would cross over to Asia.”
Her great eyes were fixed steadily upon him.
“Ah, you have thought of that!” she said, almost in a whisper.
He was silent.
“Women would get hold of you. You would sink; you would be ruined, destroyed. I know!”
“If I were it wouldn’t matter.”
“To me it would. I can’t risk it. I am not going to risk it.”
Dion leaned forward. His brown face was twitching.
“Suppose you had to choose between Jimmy and me!”