Pausing there, he looked up at her face and said, 'Why should we not try again, Christine?
We are legally at liberty to do so now.

Nothing venture nothing have.' But she would not.

Perhaps a little primness of idea was by this time ousting the native daring of Christine.

'What he has done once he can do twice,' she said.

'He is not dead, and if we were to marry he would say we had "forced his hand," as he said before, and duly reappear.' Some years after, when Christine was about fifty, and Nicholas fifty-three, a new trouble of a minor kind arrived.