How long are you going to hide behind this youthfulness?
When are you going to be old enough to be honest?
Men have patience only up to a point.

At any rate, you didn't claim youth when Gray asked you to marry him--though you may have done so afterward.

Did you ?" She kept silent.

But her eyes ran over him with contempt.

According to her, she had given him no right to put such questions.
He ignored it.