14/18 "Were I to heed you, were I to obey my own desires, I should bid you come away with me from this to-morrow." "If you but would!" she sighed. "You would be taking me out of hell." "Into another worse," I countered swiftly. "I should do you such a wrong as naught could ever right again." She looked at me for a spell in silence. Her back was to the light and her face in shadow, so that I could not read what passed there. Then, very slowly, like one utterly weary, she got to her feet. |