"Because—it might be that some of your friends would know me. . . . It is for your sake I am going."

"I wish you to stay."

"I know it. It makes me wonderfully happy."

"Won't you?"

"I must not."

"What are you going to do in the city?"

There was a silence; then: "The same?" she faltered.

"I am afraid so."

"Why?"

"What else is there?"