Alpha Book

But the
fault is not there."
"I know; 'better to bear the ills we have.'"
"Yes; more respectable to bear them. Let us drop this in decency's name,
Alixe!"
After a silence, she began: "One more thing--I must know it; and I am
going to ask you--if I may. Shall I?"
He smiled cordially, and she laughed as though confiding a delightful
bit of news to him:
"Do you regard me as sufficiently important to dislike me?"
"I do not--dislike you."
"Is it stronger than dislike, Phil?"
"Y-es."
"Contempt?"
"No."
"What is it?"
"It is that--I have not yet--become--reconciled."
"To my--folly?"
"To mine."
She strove to laugh lightly, and failing, raised her glass to her lips
again.
"Now you know," he said, pitching his tones still lower. "I am glad
after all that we have had this plain understanding. I have never felt
unkindly toward you. I can't. What you did I might have prevented had I
known enough; but I cannot help it now; nor can you if you would.


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