44/49 Then she exclaimed: 'She doesn't! She wouldn't hear of such a thing, not for the world! She wants to be kind to me in her own way, but not that; not that! How you distrust me! Are _you_ against me, then? You don't look like my Lyddy now.' 'It's because I don't understand you,' said the other, in a subdued voice, her eyes on the ground. 'You're not open with me, Thyrza. If it's true that Mrs.Ormonde thinks in that way, why do you--' She broke off. We shall never be what we were to each other, Thyrza. |