"Many things have happened between then and now.

If he is alive and I go to him, I'll try to think again that I love him.

It will be the only way.

It will save me from playing hell with my life." "I am glad you see your relations to Dale in that light," said I.
"I wasn't thinking of Dale," she said calmly.
"Of what, then, if I may ask without impertinence ?" She broke into a laugh which ended in a sigh, and then swung her splendid frame away from the fireplace and walked backwards and forwards, her figure swaying and her arms flung about in unrestrained gestures.
"You are quite right," she said, with an odd note of hardness in her voice.

"You're quite right in what you said the other day--that it was high time I went back to my husband.