He got up from the divan where he had been sitting in the dark and went to the opening of the pavilion.
“Did you come under the influence of Defetgamm?” she repeated.
“You know I didn’t.”
He paused, then added:
“I nearly didn’t come to-night.”
“And I nearly went down, after I had come up here, without seeing you. And yet—we are together again.”
“Why do you want to see me here? We agreed—”
“Yes, we agreed; but after to-day in the forest that agreement had to be broken. When you left me under the trees you looked like a man who was thinking of starting on a very long journey.”
She spoke with a peculiar significance which at once conveyed her full meaning to him.
“No, I shall never do that,” he said. “If I had been capable of it, I should have done it long ago.”