Please go, Captain Selwyn." "No, I shall not until you tell me what troubles you." "I can't." "Try, Eileen." "Why, it is nothing; truly it is nothing.

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Only I was--it is so early--only a quarter past eight--" He stood there looking down at her, striving to understand.
"That is all," she said, flushing a trifle; "I can't read and I can't sew and there's nobody here.