"You like me, don't you?" she said.[53]
"Yes." After a moment he said: "Yes—absolutely."
"Do you like me enough to—to let me help you in your research work—to be patient enough to teach me a little until I catch up with you?... So we can go on together?... I know I am presumptuous—perhaps importunate—but I thought—somehow—if you did like me well enough—it would be—very agreeable——"
"It would be!... And I—like you enough for—anything. But you could not remain here——"
"I don't mean here."
"Where, then?"
"Where?" She looked vaguely about her in the firelight. "Why, everywhere. Wherever you go to make your researches."
"Dear, I would go to Ceylon if I could."
"I also," she said.
He turned a little pale, looking at her in silence. She said calmly: "What would you do in Ceylon?"