What I want to know is why I find it so, too ?" "Do you ?" A dull colour stained his cheek-bones.
"Certainly I do.

Is it because I've had a delightful chance to admonish a sinner--and be--just a little sorry--that he had made such a silly spectacle of himself ?" He laughed, wincing a trifle.
"Hence this agreeably righteous glow suffusing me," she concluded.

"So now that I have answered my own question, I think that we had better go.
...

Don't you ?" They walked for a while, subdued, soberly picking their path through the dusk.

After a few moments she began to feel doubtful, a little uneasy, partly from a reaction which was natural, partly because she was not at all sure what either Quarrier or Major Belwether would think of the terms she was already on with Siward.