23/74 "Be sure we shall all know it." "That's exactly what I'm afraid of!" "Then don't be afraid till we do. She would fall, as it were, on US, don't you see? We MUST keep her up--that's your guarantee. It's rather too much," she added with the same increase of briskness, "to have to keep YOU up too. Be very sure that if Carrie really wavers--" "Carrie ?" His interruption was clearly too vague to be sincere, and it was as such that, going straight on, she treated it. |