I want to work it all out.

Wait till to-night," she urged.

"Then we can--" "Good, we will make it all up to-night," he said, and he patted her shoulder as one would that of a child.

It had the slight flavour of the superior and the paternal.
She almost shrank from his touch.

If he had kissed her she would have felt that she must push him away; and yet she also knew how good a man he was..