"But our lives are for ever joined together now, and everything else must go by the board."
"Nothing shall go by the board for my sake, Martin. I refuse and forbid it."
Everything had been arranged, everything settled, great sums of money had been subscribed out of faith in him, and him only, and a large company was ready and waiting to sail under his command. He was the Man of Destiny, therefore nothing—nothing whatever—must keep him back.
"Then if I must go, you must go too," he said. "I mean you must go with me to London and wait there until I return."
"That is impossible," I answered.
The eyes of the world were on him now, and the heart of the world was with him. If I did what he desired it would reflect dishonour on his name, and he should not suffer for my sake under any circumstances.
"But think what may happen to you while I am away," he said.
"Nothing will happen while you are away, Martin."
"But how can you be so sure of the future when God alone knows what it is to be?"
"Then God will provide for it," I said, and with that last answer he had to be satisfied.