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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: prospect of--what was it?--"Ten thousand days, ten thousand
nights" in his company. Whatever happened she need never return
to that possibility.
"For me," Manning went on, "this isn't final. In a sense it
alters nothing. I shall still wear your favor--even if it is a
stolen and forbidden favor--in my casque. . . . I shall still
believe in you. Trust you."
He repeated several times that he would trust her, though it
remained obscure just exactly where the trust came in.
"Look here," he cried out of a silence, with a sudden flash of
understanding, "did you mean to throw me over when you came out
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