You shall come and see me as seldom as you wish.

I will receive you only as often as you say.

But don't treat me like this.

Tell me you have come back.

Throw off this hideous mask, if it be only for a moment." He sat quite still, although her hands were tearing at his, her lips and eyes beseeching him.
"Whatever may come afterwards," he pronounced inexorably, "until the time arrives I am Everard Dominey.