"I brought you here before you knew where you were.

If you go to confession, you can mention that as an extenuating circumstance." "Oh, don't!" said Dinah, inexplicably stung by his manner.

"It--it isn't nice of you to talk like that." He put out his hand and touched her arm lightly, persuasively.

"Then you are angry with me ?" he said.
Her resentment melted.

She threw him a fleeting smile.