She sprang to her feet.
"You said you were going away," she cried.

"You said it, when you left us yesterday.

It can't be! it shan't be! You're not going to leave Carmina, too ?" Ovid's first impulse was to tell the whole truth.

He resisted the impulse.

To own that Carmina was the cause of his abandonment of the sea-voyage, before she was even sure of the impression she had produced on him, would be to place himself in a position from which his self-respect recoiled.