Haven't we nearly done?
Why don't they take away these plates ?" Mary felt his agitation without looking at him; she felt convinced that she knew what it was that he wished to say to her.
"They'll come all in good time," she said; and felt it necessary to display her extreme calmness by lifting a salt-cellar and sweeping up a little heap of bread-crumbs.
"I want to apologize," Ralph continued, not quite knowing what he was about to say, but feeling some curious instinct which urged him to commit himself irrevocably, and to prevent the moment of intimacy from passing.
"I think I've treated you very badly.

That is, I've told you lies.

Did you guess that I was lying to you?
Once in Lincoln's Inn Fields and again to-day on our walk.

I am a liar, Mary.

Did you know that?
Do you think you do know me ?" "I think I do," she said.
At this point the waiter changed their plates.
"It's true I don't want you to go to America," he said, looking fixedly at the table-cloth.