"Come away with me, somewhere, YOU--and then we needn't think, we needn't even talk, of anything, of anyone else:" five words like that would answer her, would break her utterly down.

But they were the only ones that would so serve.

She waited for them, and there was a supreme instant when, by the testimony of all the rest of him, she seemed to feel them in his heart and on his lips; only they didn't sound, and as that made her wait again so it made her more intensely watch.

This in turn showed her that he too watched and waited, and how much he had expected something that he now felt wouldn't come.

Yes, it wouldn't come if he didn't answer her, if he but said the wrong things instead of the right.