Part 40 (1/2)

MARGOT: ”No, I won't”

PETER: ”Was it D--ly?”

MARGOT: ”I shan't tell you I'm not Sa ot, this is the worst blow ofme I knoho paid my debt now”

MARGOT: ”Then why ask ME? ”

PETER: ”When I went to India I had never spoken to D--ly in my life Why should he have paid my debts for et it over: it's all settled and you're going to ot into the way of lying, you ar questions”

PETER (SEIZING MY HANDS IN ANGUISH): ”Say you aren't going to marry himtell me, tell me it's NOT true”

MARGOT: ”Why should I? He has never asked me to”

After this the question of matrimony was bound to come up between us The first time it was talked of, I was filled with anxiety It seemed to put a finish to the radiance of our friendshi+p and, worse than that, it brought ainst my father, who had often said to me: ”You will never marry Flower; you must marry your superior”

Peter himself, in a subconscious way, had beco hoie, do you see that?”

He pointed to the spire of the Melton Church and added:

”That is what you are in my life I am not worth the button on your boot!”

To which I replied:

”I would not say that, but I cannot find goodness for two”

I was profundly unhappy To live for ever with aany one but himself and me, ithout any kind of moral aion, was a nightet some serious occupation, Peter, but I won'tbut yourself and oodness would you have raphy?”

MARGOT: ”You know exactly what I ; you don't love any one but yourself”

At this, Peter moved away from me as if I had struck hilad I did not say that I would not care to have said such a cat-cruel thing; but I pity the man who marries you! He will think--as I did--that you are ientle; and he will find that he has ; and a woman whose fire--of which she boasts so much-- blasts his soul”

I listened to a Peter I had never heard before, His face frightened ainst his and said:

”How can Iquite clever about people, as the Mrs Bo episode had taught me a lot