25/29 But I will repeat what I said in the Wood when you told me you would believe me. There is Something--not you--not Donal--to be saved from suffering." "That is true," the Duchess said and put out her hand as before. "And there is something longer drawn out and more miserable than mere dying--a dreary outcast sort of life. We know more about such things than you do." "You may better comprehend my action if I add a purely selfish reason for it," Coombe went on. |