20/29 No, by Heaven, you shall not do it, even if it can be done! It is too horrible." "I owe it to myself to do it. After all, he is still my husband. I have let it be so; and while it is so, and while"-- her eyes looked away, her face suffused slightly, her lips tightened--"while things are as they are, I am bound--bound by something, I don't know what, but it is not love, and it is not friendship--to come to his rescue. There will be legal expenses--" Byng frowned. "Yes, but the others wouldn't see him in a hole--yet I'm not sure, either, Blantyre being Blantyre. |