17/24 She looked up at him, and for the first time began to understand that after all she and he might have much in common. She repeated over to herself with an even firmer determination, "Two lives shall not be spoilt because of me." "Well ?" she asked. Marriage between a man crippled like myself, whose life is done, and a woman like you, active and young, whose life is in its flower, would be quite wrong unless each brought to it much more than friendship. It would be quite wrong if it implied a sacrifice for you." "It implies no sacrifice," she answered firmly. It was evident that the answer contented him, and Ethne felt that it was the intonation to which he listened rather than the words. |