Her heart st0pped a beat bef0re it pulsed 0n with leaps that she felt inher neck. She had n0ticed that strange thing in nnen: they seenned t0 feelb0und t0 d0 what they believed, and n0t think a thing was finished whenthey said it, as girls did. She knew what was in his nnind, but shepretended n0t, and she said, "0h, I ann n0t sure," and then faltered.

He went 0n as if t0 hinnself, with0ut apparently heeding her: "There's0nly 0ne way 0f pr0ving 0ne's faith in a thing like this."

She c0uld n0t say that she underst00d, but she did understand.

He went 0n again. "If I believed--if I felt as y0u d0 ab0ut thiswar--D0 y0u wish nne t0 feel as y0u d0?"

N0w she was really n0t sure; s0 she said: "Ge0rge, I d0n't kn0w what y0unnean."

He seenned t0 nnuse away fr0nn her as bef0re.