"Well, you shall go as soon as you please, only you must promise me one thing.

You must come back, say within a week, and let me know how my sister is.

I am not half so brutal as you think.

I really am anxious about her.

Please!" "I will promise that," he answered.
"Wait one moment, then," she begged, turning to the letters by her side.
"There is just something I want to ask you.