But I justified it to myself--I could have justified anything, I fear! I vowed a vow that she would be repaid for the waiting as never woman yet was paid.

She wept on my shoulder and said, 'And you really do love me, Harry--and you'll swear mother need never know ?' "I swore it.

There were to be no letters.

Molly was too terrified to write and still more terrified of receiving a letter.

She would live in constant dread, she said, if there were a possibility of such a thing.
Weak in everything else she was adamant in this.
"I went back to work.