'
'But doesn't the promise refer to after you come back again?' she said
in a low voice.
'I don't ask you to come away until I'm back again. But I want you to
promise before that you will.'
Nothing more was said on the subject at the time, but after dinner, when
Dilly had been put to bed, it was so warm that they could come out
again, and then she said:
'Aylmer, don't worry yourself any more. I mean to do it.'
'You do!'
He looked at her ecstatically.
'Oh, Edith! I'm too happy! Do you quite realise, dear, what it is?...
I've been waiting for you for four years. Ever since that night I met
you at the Mitchells'. Do you know that before the war, when I came into
that money, I was wild with rage. It seemed so wasted on me. I had no
use for it then. And when I first met you I used to long for it. I hated
being hard up.... The first time I had a gleam of hope was when they
told me I'd got over the operation all right. I couldn't believe my life
would be spared, for nothing. And now--you won't change your
mind again?'
Edith convinced him that she would not. They sat hand in hand, perhaps
as near perfect happiness as two human beings can be.
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