“Because I cannot make you – happy. You – love somebody else – and it would be wrong – completely and absolutely wrong for me to – ruin your life if there is an – alternative.”
“You are thinking of me?”
“Of course I am! I have seen – Lady Burnham and I know – what she – means to you. The only thing I can do to – save you is to – disappear.”
“At whatever the cost to your family and yourself?”
He was making it very difficult, Ajanta thought, but still she dared not look at him. Holding herself very stiffly and forcing the words from between her lips, she answered,
“You came into our lives just by – chance. If there had been no accident and Charis had not been there, we would never have – met you. It has been more – wonderful than I can possibly – explain to have known you – but now you
