17/27 But the expression on your face, I imagine, was very like that of a woman-stealing cave-man. Another instant, and I am sure you would have laid violent hands upon me." "Then I ask your pardon. I did not dream--" "There you go, spoiling it all! I--I quite liked you for it. Don't you remember, I, too, was a cave-woman, brandishing the whip over your head? "I purpose to unmask you." "As clay in the hands of the potter," he responded, meekly. |