20/24 I don't believe she appreciates the wickedness of the thing she is about to do. I insist that it is my right to speak with her, to urge her to reconsider, to point out to her the horrors of--" "She will not see you, Braden," broke in the mother, finality in her voice. "If not to-day, to-morrow; if not then, some other day, for, by the Eternal, Mrs.Tresslyn, I intend to speak with her if I have to wait until the accursed day you have selected,--at the very altar, if necessary. She shall not go into this thing until she has had the final word with me, and I with her. She does not know what she is doing. |