'God has forsaken me,' she repeated. 'God has foresaken me.'
Next day, her eyes red with weeping, she dragged herself to Haddo's door.
When he opened it, she went in without a word. She sat down, and he
watched her in silence.
'I am willing to marry you whenever you choose,' she said at last.
'I have made all the necessary arrangements.'
'You have spoken to me of your mother. Will you take me to her at once.'
The shadow of a smile crossed his lips.
'If you wish it.'
Haddo told her that they could be married before the Consul early enough
on the Thursday morning to catch a train for England. She left everything
in his hands.
'I'm desperately unhappy,' she said dully.
Oliver laid his hands upon her shoulders and looked into her eyes.
'Go home, and you will forget your tears. I command you to be happy.'
Then it seemed that the bitter struggle between the good and the evil in
her was done, and the evil had conquered. She felt on a sudden curiously
elated. It seemed no longer to matter that she deceived her faithful
friends.
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