"Maggie--why not ?" "I can't.

That's final.

And don't make me talk to you now, Dick--please! I cannot!" His face, so fresh and happy the moment before, became gray and lined with pain.

But he silently swung the car back into the road.
She forgot him utterly in what was happening within her.

As they rode on, she forced herself to think of what she should do.