So it seems to me that the only thing to do
is to be patient, and wait until time unties the knot.
"Meanwhile, if you can make some money in Africa, so much the better.
So go, Alan, go as soon as you like, for I do not wish to prolong this
agony, or to see you exposed daily to all you have to bear. Whenever you
return you will find me waiting for you, and if you do not return, still
I shall wait, as you in like circumstances will wait for me. But I think
you will return."
Then followed much that need not be written, and at the end a postscript
which ran:
"I am glad to hear that you have succeeded in shifting the mortgage on
Yarleys, although the interest is so high. Write to me whenever you get
a chance, to the care of the lawyer, for then the letters will reach me,
but never to this house, or they may be stopped. I will do the same to
you to the address you give. Good-bye, dearest Alan, my true and only
lover. I wonder where and when we shall meet again. God be with us both
and enable us to bear our trial.
"P.P.S. I hear that the Sahara flotation was _really_ a success,
notwithstanding the _Judge_ attacks. Sir Robert and my uncle have made
millions.
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