Why, all the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later.

It seemed strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since gives a meaning to it." "Most certainly it does.

Your own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him ?" "Yes, sir.

I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he would not have talked so.

And then I think that what he foresaw happened." "But you have no notion as to what it could have been ?" "None." "One more question.