She felt curiously as if she were under the influence of an electric battery; every nerve and every vein seemed to be tingling.
He had not asked a question, yet she felt that in some fashion he had made it incumbent upon her to speak in answer.

In the silence that followed his words she was aware of an insistence that would not be denied.

She tried to put it from her, but could not.

In the end, more than half against her will, she yielded.
"I suppose I shall have to go," she said, "if only to pacify Tommy." "A very good and sufficient reason," commented Monck enigmatically.
He lingered on beside her for a while, but nothing further of an intimate nature passed between them.

She felt that he had gained his objective and would say no more.