If my friends have faith in me--and they may!--I want nothing more.' 'Well, I won't talk commonplaces about the world,' said Redworth.

'We can none of us afford to have it against us.

Consider a moment: to your friends you are the Diana Merion they knew, and they will not suffer an injury to your good name without a struggle.

But if you fly?
You leave the dearest you have to the whole brunt of it.
'They will, if they love me.' 'They will.

But think of the shock to her.