17/26 She asked me why and the end of it was that I told her all that story which to this moment she had never heard, for Ragnall had thought well to keep it from her. Yet, I'm not sure, for you see I was abducted after all. Also if I had been taken there, probably George would never have married me or seen me again, and that might have been better for him." "Why ?" I asked. "You were all the world to him." "Is any woman ever all the world to a man, Mr.Quatermain ?" I hesitated, expecting some attack. However, he was all the world to me. |