It's only for you--absolutely you alone--that I speak; I so want you to know." The sense he had so often had, since the first hour of his disembarkment, of being further and further "in," treated him again at this moment to another twinge; but in this wonderful way of her putting him in there continued to be something exquisitely remorseless.
"Monsieur de Vionnet will accept what he MUST accept.

He has proposed half a dozen things--each one more impossible than the other; and he wouldn't have found this if he lives to a hundred.

Chad found it," she continued with her lighted, faintly flushed, her conscious confidential face, "in the quietest way in the world.

Or rather it found HIM--for everything finds him; I mean finds him right.

You'll think we do such things strangely--but at my age," she smiled, "one has to accept one's conditions.