Are you going away from me like this?
Don't you think you're rather hard on me ?" It was a point of view that had not occurred to Dinah.

Her warm heart had a sudden twinge of self-reproach.

She turned swiftly to him.
"I didn't mean to be horrid.

Please don't think that of me! I know I often am.

But not to you--never to you!" "Never ?" he said.
His face was close to her, and it wore a faint smile in which she detected none of the arrogance of the conqueror.