"Knew you would come?
Oh, yes.

I begged you not to come; but I felt sure you were too deeply in earnest to obey me.

I asked a friend in Cape Town to telegraph your arrival; and almost ever since the telegram reached me I have been expecting you and awaiting you." "So you believed in me ?" "Implicitly--as you in me.

That is the worst of it, Hubert.

If you did NOT believe in me, I could have told you all--and then, you would have left me.