"Not--Margaret!"

Priscilla drew herself away from the straining hands. She was quite calm
now and terribly earnest.

"When all's told, it is Margaret and I--and God!"

"No. There are others, and other things. All the world's forces are
against you."

"No, they are not! They are turning with me. I feel them; I feel them.
I am not afraid." Then she took command, while Travers stood amazed. She
put her hands on his shoulders and held him so before the bar of her
crude, woman-judgment.

"Answer me, my beloved! You believe--what I have told you?"

"I do."

"You know Doctor Hapgood will do no more?"

"He--cannot."

"If you go to Doctor Ledyard--and he knows and believes--what will he
do?"

"He has been Huntter's physician for years. If he has been mistaken, he
will go to Huntter."