At sight of Jolliffe she started back as if she would have gone out again.
'Don't run away, Emily; don't!' said he.

'What can make ye afraid ?' 'I'm not afraid, Captain Jolliffe.

Only--only I saw you all of a sudden, and--it made me jump!' Her voice showed that her heart had jumped even more than the rest of her.
'I just called as I was passing,' he said.
'For some paper ?' She hastened behind the counter.
'No, no, Emily; why do ye get behind there?
Why not stay by me?
You seem to hate me.' 'I don't hate you.

How can I ?' 'Then come out, so that we can talk like Christians.' Emily obeyed with a fitful laugh, till she stood again beside him in the open part of the shop.
'There's a dear,' he said.
'You mustn't say that, Captain Jolliffe; because the words belong to somebody else.' 'Ah! I know what you mean.

But, Emily, upon my life I didn't know till this morning that you cared one bit about me, or I should not have done as I have done.