Loud above his voice his ashen face was speaking to her, and she cried in terror, "What is wrong ?" Even then he attempted to deceive her, but suddenly she knew the truth.
"You don't want to be married!" I think the room swam round with her.

When it was steady again, "You did not say that, did you ?" she asked.

She was sure he had not said it.

She was smiling again tremulously to show him that he had not said it.
"I want to be married above all else on earth," he said imploringly; but his face betrayed him still, and she demanded the truth, and he was forced to tell it.
A little shiver passed through her, that was all.
"Do you mean that you don't love me ?" she said.

"You must tell me what you mean." "That is how others would put it, I suppose," he replied.