"That's what I complain of. Suppose I pull the thing off, and make a
success of myself somewhere else, how should I communicate with you
again?"

"Why should you communicate with me at all?"

"To pay you back your money, for one thing--"

"Oh, that doesn't matter."

"Perhaps it doesn't from your point of view; but it does from mine. But it
wouldn't be my only reason in any case."

Something in his voice and in his eyes warned her to rise and interrupt
him.

"I'm afraid we haven't time to talk about it now," she said, hurriedly.
"We really must be going on."

"I'm not going to talk about it now," he declared, rising in his turn. "I
said it would be a reason for my wanting to communicate with you again. I
shall want to tell you something then; though perhaps by that time you
won't want to hear it."

"Hadn't we better wait and see?"

"That's what I shall have to do; but how can I come back to you at all if
I don't know who you are?"

"I shall have to leave that to your ingenuity," she laughed, with an