he said. ‘You’ll be able to tell me if it is.’
Again there was a pause of some minutes’ duration. He was thinking.
‘One must throw everything away, everything — let everything go, to get the one last thing one wants,’ he said.
‘What thing?’ she asked in challenge.
‘I don’t know — freedom together,’ he said.
She had wanted him to say ‘love.’
There was heard a loud barking of the dogs below. He seemed disturbed by it. She did not notice. Only she thought he seemed uneasy.
‘As a matter of fact,’ he said, in rather a small voice,