"I do not wish it," said Eleanor, finding it very difficult to answer at all—"I wish it to be just as you please."
"You must know what my pleasure is. Does your heart not fail you, now you are here?" he asked still lower and in a very gentle way.
"No."
"Eleanor, have you had any doubts or failings of heart at any time, since you left England?"
"No. Yes!—I did, once—at Sydney."
"At Sydney?"—repeated Mr. Rhys in a perceptibly graver tone.
"Yes—at Sydney—when I did not get any letters from you."
"You got no letters from me?"
"No."
"At Sydney?"