"Of course you think so! And that shows that you are only a man after all; in spite of your finessing.

But I am going to have the credit of it.

I knew that you were holding back because you were too proud, or thought you hadn't the right, or something.

Weren't you ?" She startled him with the sudden vehemence of her challenge: "If you pretend, that you weren't I shall never forgive you!" "But I was! Of course I was.

I was afraid--" "Isn't that what I said ?" She triumphed over him with another laugh, and cowered a little closer to him, if that could be.
They were standing, without knowing how they had got to their feet; and now without any purpose of the kind, they began to stroll again among the garden paths, and to ask and to answer questions, which touched every point of their common history, and yet left it a mine of inexhaustible knowledge for all future time.