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 “It is because I know that I believe. Think no more of it, Andromeda, and don’t let the thought of him cause you further terror.”

“He is dangerous.”

“We shall know how to meet him.”

She caught his hand and pressed it to her lips. Then she looked up at him wistfully, yearningly.

“Tf you have any doubt,” she said, “let me hear it now.”

“T have none,” he assured her.

“Even such a woman as I may learn to love.”

“T know—I know.”

“Tt was my first real taste of happiness,” she said brokenly. “I wonder if a man ever fully realises what he may become to a woman? Yet I should loathe myself if you .. . It was for you, Perseus—the joy of you, the love of you. You made everything easy for me. . . andawoman likes her conscience soothed. But if you doubt, tell me of it here, now. I dare not trifle with this, nor must you. It is all my life.”

“And mine. For better or worse, Androm- eda.”

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