“There is a small restaurant near here where I used to eat when I was young. If it is still open, I suggest we go there while you tell me about yourself.”
“I have no intention of telling you anything, so perhaps I should not accept your – invitation under – false pretences.”
“Then I will talk,” Warren said, “and you can listen!”
The girl stood for a moment undecided, as if she thought it might be wiser to run away from him.
Once again he knew what she was thinking and he said,
“As it happens, I would like to talk to you, because I have a tremendous problem on my mind. It is one that would not have been helped by the music and the laughter that I could have found across the river, and that is why I was walking here. You may in fact, be the ‘guiding light’ I was seeking.”
“You do not l
