If any conduct is wrong, that is." She spoke with an energy that was directed even more against herself than against him.

"It seems to me," she continued, with the same energy, "that people are bound to be honest.

There's no excuse for such behavior." She could now see plainly before her eyes the expression on Mary Datchet's face.
After a short pause, he said: "I am not telling you that I am in love with you.

I am not in love with you." "I didn't think that," she replied, conscious of some bewilderment.
"I have not spoken a word to you that I do not mean," he added.
"Tell me then what it is that you mean," she said at length.
As if obeying a common instinct, they both stopped and, bending slightly over the balustrade of the river, looked into the flowing water.
"You say that we've got to be honest," Ralph began.

"Very well.