She had not told him and did
not intend that he should know to what station she was going. "You
begged me to ask no questions," he said when he was in the cab with
her, the maid having been induced most unwillingly to seat herself
with the cabman on the box,--"and I have obeyed you. But I wish I
knew how I could help you."
"You have helped me, and you are helping me. But do not ask
anything more."
"Will you be angry with me if I say that I fear you are intending
something rash?"
"Of course I am. How could it be otherwise with me? Don't you think
there are turns in a person's life when she must do something rash.
Think of yourself. If everybody crushed you; if you were
ill-treated beyond all belief; if the very people who ought to trust
you doubted you, wouldn't you turn upon somebody and rend him?"
"Are you going to rend anybody?"
"I do not know as yet."
"I wish you would let me go down with you."
"No; that you certainly cannot. You must not come even into the
station with me. You have been very good to me. You will not now
turn against me."
"I certainly will do nothing--but what you tell me."
"Then here we are,--and now you must go. Jane can carry my hand-bag
and cloak. If you choose to come in the evening at ten it will be
an additional favour."
"I certainly will do so.
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