18/24 Rochester and Mellors both believe in him. "Between us, I think that we could induce him." "Perhaps," she answered. "Only I do not mean to try." "I wish I could make you understand," he said impatiently, "that I am in deadly earnest." "You threaten ?" "Don't call it that." "Very well, then," she declared, "I will tell him the truth myself." "That," he answered, "is all that I should dare to ask. He would come to us to-morrow." "You used not to underrate me," she murmured, with a glance towards the mirror. "He abhors any form of deceit. |