"It appears to me," he said slowly, "that the first thing to be done is to find Arnott. Until I have seen him it is impossible to come to any decision... Have I your permission to let him know that I am in full possession of the facts you have related?" She looked a little frightened. "Oh!" she said. "Must you tell him that? He will never forgive me." "Do you think that matters?" He tapped the cablegram he still held. "In face of this, I don't think you have much to expect from him save what is gained through compulsion. We shall be forced to use our knowledge." She gazed up at him, faintly perplexed. "What do you mean to do?" she asked. "What do you want me to do?" Pamela hesitated. Any love which had remained from the wreckage of the past had died with the finding of the cablegram after Arnott's desertion. It seemed to her that all sense of feeling had died with it, except only the jealous maternal love, which gathered strength with the decline of the rest. "I want only one thing from him," she answered presently, her eyes evading his without however falling... "I've a right to that--his name. Don't you think I am within my right in demanding that?" "Yes," he agreed, "but--" Pamela glanced at him swiftly. "You think he won't consent?" she asked. "I wasn't thinking that. I imagine if it came to the point, we could oblige him to consent. But are you quite sure that course would be wise? Wouldn't it, perhaps, entail fresh suffering on you?" "I was not considering myself," she said. "It doesn't seem to matter much what becomes of me." He approached her, and stood over her, all the love that was in his heart revealed in his earnest eyes. He had not intended to speak of his love then; the time occurred to him as ill chosen; but while she discussed in such calm, dispassionate tones the only solution which presented itself to her mind, it seemed to him, if he delayed showing her another way out of her present trouble, the opportunity might not offer itself again. "Won't you," he said very quietly, "take my name instead?"