'Now, I know what you mean to say in answer; but I don't want to hear more at present; and whatever you do, don't fall into the mistake of supposing I have accepted you in any other sense than the way I say.

If you don't like such a limitation you can go away.

I dare say I shall get over it.' 'Go away! Could I go away ?--But you are beginning to tease, and will soon punish me severely; so I will make my escape while all is well.

It would be presumptuous to expect more in one day.' 'It would indeed,' said Paula, with her eyes on a bunch of flowers.
VI.
On leaving the hotel, Somerset's first impulse was to get out of sight of its windows, and his glance upward had perhaps not the tender significance that Paula imagined, the last look impelled by any such whiff of emotion having been the lingering one he bestowed upon her in passing out of the room.

Unluckily for the prospects of this attachment, Paula's conduct towards him now, as a result of misrepresentation, had enough in common with her previous silence at Nice to make it not unreasonable as a further development of that silence.