How could I have expected that you would take it in any other way, being what you are and I what I had been?
I am glad I told you.

You could never have respected me for an instant if you had found it out in any other way; and I want your respect: I want it very, very earnestly, Miss Lorne.

If you can ever give it to me I'll do my best to be worthy of it." She had withdrawn her hand from his and was drumming with her finger-tips upon the mantelshelf.

A little pucker was between her eyebrows, she was biting her under lip perplexedly, and appeared to be hesitating.

But of a sudden she twitched round her head sharply and a sweep of red went up over her face.
"Shall I show you how much I do respect you, then ?" she said.