She did not say anything: so I went on.
'I have thought long,' said I, 'and I have made a plan--a plan which
cannot be effective without _your_ consent and co-operation: and the
plan is this: we go from this place together--this same night--to some
unknown spot, some town, say a hundred miles hence--by train. There I
get two motors, and I in one, and you in the other, we separate, going
different ways. We shall thus never be able, however much we may want
to, to rediscover each other in all this wide world. That is my plan.'
She looked me in the face, smiling her smile: and the answer was not
long in coming.
'I will go in the tlain with you,' says she with slow decisiveness: 'but
where you leave me, there I will stay, till I die; and I will patiently
wait till my God convert you, and send you back to me.'
'That means that you refuse to do what I say?'
'Yes,' said she, bowing the head with great dignity.
'Well, you speak, not like a girl, Leda,' said I, 'but like a full woman
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