"Yes," said the captain, wisely answering her in the fewest words. "He
is coming at two o'clock."
"Take me away!" she exclaimed, tossing her hair back wildly from her
face. "Take me away before he comes. I can't get over the horror of
marrying him while I am in this hateful place; take me somewhere where
I can forget it, or I shall go mad! Give me two days' rest--two days out
of sight of that horrible sea--two days out of prison in this horrible
house--two days anywhere in the wide world away from Aldborough. I'll
come back with you! I'll go through with it to the end! Only give me two
days' escape from that man and everything belonging to him! Do you hear,
you villain?" she cried, seizing his arm and shaking it in a frenzy of
passion; "I have been tortured enough--I can bear it no longer!"
There was but one way of quieting her, and the captain instantly took
it.
"If you will try to control yourself," he said, "you shall leave
Aldborough in an hour's time."
She dropped his arm, and leaned back heavily against the wall behind
her.
"I'll try," she answered, struggling for breath, but looking at him less
wildly. "You shan't complain of me, if I can help it.
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