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Ask anybody who
knows--anybody."
I felt as if I would suffocate with shame.
"Come now," said the advocate in his superior way, taking my hand as if
he were going to lead me like a child to my husband, "let us put an end
to this little trouble. His lordship is downstairs and he has
consented--kindly and generously consented--to wait an hour for your
answer. But he must leave the island by the afternoon steamer, and
if. . . ."
"Then tell him he must leave it without me," I said, as well as I could
for the anger that was choking me.
The advocate looked steadily into my face. I think he understood the
situation at last.
"You mean that--really and truly mean it?" he asked.
"I do," I answered, and unable to say or hear any more without breaking
out on him altogether I left the room.


THIRTY-NINTH CHAPTER

Down to this moment I had put on a brave front though my very heart had
been trembling; but now I felt that all the weight of law, custom,
parental authority and even religion was bearing me down, down, down,
and unless help came I must submit in the long run.


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