“I have no wish to think about tomorrow, but it is something that cannot be avoided.”
“I-I know that,” Minella said, “and – because I love you – I have had an idea.”
“What is it?”
She did not touch him, but he was aware that she was trembling and the colour rose in her cheeks as she said in a voice that he could hardly hear,
“When we first – came aboard, you – made a suggestion to me which I – refused.”
“You know I only suggested it because, although I loved you, I had no idea then that you were both your father’s daughter and also everything I had ever looked for and wanted in my wife.”
“I love you for – saying that,” Minella replied, “but because I know it will – hurt you to have a divorce – and because you will – hate it so much – I am ready now – to accept your – s-suggestion.”
