After which he added: "If we meet again you'll find me as you leave me.

If we don't I shall be so all the same." "Thank you very much.

Good-bye." There was something quietly firm about Isabel's visitor; he might go of his own movement, but wouldn't be dismissed.

"There's one thing more.
I haven't asked anything of you--not even a thought in the future; you must do me that justice.

But there's a little service I should like to ask.