3/43 Now you can stay or go as you choose. But you must manage it for yourself; I'll have nothing to do with it." Her answer was spoken with dangerous suavity "I am going. Blame yourself if you do not like the time and manner of it. I daresay Adam--my husband--will have a word to say to you about it!" "Let him say, and be damned to him, and to you too! I'll show you a light. You shan't be able to say that you could not see what you were doing." As he spoke, he was lighting another piece of the magnesium ribbon, which made a blinding glare in which everything was plainly discernible, down to the smallest detail. |