"
Silence in the wood. The doctor felt he was playing a losing game.
He dared not look at the silent figure opposite. At last he spoke.
"Dalmain, there are two possible solutions to your problem. Do you
think it was a case of Eve holding back in virginal shyness,
expecting Adam to pursue?"
"Ah, no," said Garth emphatically. "We had gone far beyond all that.
Nor could you suggest it, did you know her. She is too honest, too
absolutely straight and true, to have deceived me. Besides, had it
been so, in all these lonely years, when she found I made no sign,
she would have sent me word of what she really meant."
"Should you have gone to her then?" asked the doctor.
"Yes," said Garth slowly. "I should have gone and I should have
forgiven--because she is my own. But it could never have been the
same. It would have been unworthy of us both."
"Well," continued the doctor, "the other solution remains. You have
admitted that the One Woman came somewhat short of the conventional
standard of beauty.
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