Thus to lose touch with her, for he had no idea what she was thinking, was so unpleasant to him that he began to talk about his grievances again, without, however, much conviction in his voice.
"If you have no feeling for me, wouldn't it be kinder to say so to me in private ?" "Oh, William," she burst out, as if he had interrupted some absorbing train of thought, "how you go on about feelings! Isn't it better not to talk so much, not to be worrying always about small things that don't really matter ?" "That's the question precisely," he exclaimed.

"I only want you to tell me that they don't matter.

There are times when you seem indifferent to everything.

I'm vain, I've a thousand faults; but you know they're not everything; you know I care for you." "And if I say that I care for you, don't you believe me ?" "Say it, Katharine! Say it as if you meant it! Make me feel that you care for me!" She could not force herself to speak a word.

The heather was growing dim around them, and the horizon was blotted out by white mist.