[The Children of the King by F. Marion Crawford]@TWC D-Link bookThe Children of the King CHAPTER VIII 9/37
But I have changed my mind.
I see the whole truth now, every detail of it.
He planned it all, and he did it very well--probably he planned it the night before last, out here with you, while I was playing waltzes.
You could not make me marry him, and he got leave of you to speak to me.
Do you think I do not understand it all? Would you have let me go away last night and sit with him on the rocks, out of your hearing, without so much as a remark, unless you had arranged the matter between you? It is not like you, and I know you meant it.
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