Then she moved on a step or two.
"I interrupted you," she said.

"You were saying that when I spoke about my window, although you were troubled on my account--" "I felt at the same time some relief," Linforth continued.
"Relief ?" she asked.
"Yes; for on my return from Ajmere this morning I noticed a change in you." He felt at once Violet's hand shake upon his arm as she started; but she did not interrupt him by a word.
"I noticed it at once when we met for the first time since we had talked together in the garden, for the first time since your hands had lain in mine and your lips touched mine.

And afterwards it was still there." "What change ?" Violet asked.

But she asked the question in a stifled voice and with her face averted from him.
"There was a constraint, an embarrassment," he said.

"How can I explain it?
I felt it rather than noticed it by visible signs.