I can prove nothing, I can prevent nothing.

Oh! _do_ come home." There was but one thought which remained clear in her mind.

She must keep herself safe--she must keep herself safe.

In the anguish of her trouble she confessed, by putting it into words, a thing which she had not confessed before, and even as she spoke she did not realise that her words contained confession.
"If I were to die now," she said with a touching gravity, "he would care very much." A few moments later she said, "It does not matter what happens to me, how ridiculous or vulgar or foolish I seem, if I can keep myself safe--until after.

I will write to him now and ask him to try to come back." It was the letter she wrote after this decision which Osborn saw among others awaiting postal, and which he stopped to examine..