But you have been different." He replied in words which he would not dare to have uttered a few hours before.
"And yet, back there when you first asked me to go with you as your husband, you knew what I would find at Adare House ?" he asked, his voice low and tense.

"You knew ?" "Yes." "Then what has produced the change that makes you fear to have me go on?
Is it because"-- he leaned toward her, and his face was bloodless--"Is it because you care a little for me ?" "Because I respect you, yes," she said in a voice that disappointed him.

"I don't want to hurt you.

I don't want you to go back into the world thinking of me as you will.

You have been honest with me.