And without that hope, I couldn't have gone on.
It's what I have lived on. The only thing that any of my--successes has
meant has been that perhaps it brought that nearer."
She gave a shaky laugh. "On approval!" Her eyes filled again. "Roddy,
you can't mean that."
She came over and sat down in his lap, and slid her arm around his neck.
"This is where we'll begin!" she said. "That I'll never--whatever
happens--walk out on you again. Whether things go well or badly with us,
we'll work it out, somehow, together."
It was not until she heard the long shuddering sigh he drew at that, and
felt him go limp under her, that she realized how genuine his fear had
been--the perfectly preposterous fear that if their new experiment
didn't come up to her anticipation she'd tell him so, and leave him
once more. This time for good.
It was a good while before they took up a rational discussion again, but
at last she said:
"It will take working out, though. We've been shirking that. Hadn't we
better begin?"
He assented.
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