The tears sprang to her eyes before she was aware.
"Whatever happens then, we are friends," she said.

"Remember that always, won't you?
It--it will hurt me very much if you don't." "Bless your heart!" said Guy, and smiled a twisted smile.

"You were always generous, weren't you?
Too generous sometimes.

What did you want to rake me out of my own particular little comer of hell for?
Was it a mistaken idea of kindness or merely curiosity?
I wasn't anyhow doing you any harm there." His words, accompanied by that painful smile, went straight to her heart.

"Ah, don't--don't!" she said.