"I've been beastly enough for one day." "Don't you care to know ?" "Of course I care to know." "Yet, exercising all your marvellous masculine self-control, you nobly refuse to ask ?" "I'm afraid to," he said, laughing; "I'm horribly afraid of you." She considered him with clear, unsmiling eyes.
"Coward!" she said calmly.
He nodded his head, laughing still.

"I know it; I almost lost you by saying 'Calypso' a moment ago and I'm taking no more risks." "Am I to infer that you expect to recover me after this ?" And, as he made no answer: "You dare not admit that you hope to see me again.

You _are_ horribly afraid of me--even if I have defied convention and your opinions and have graciously overlooked your impertinence.

In spite of all this you are still afraid of me.

Are you ?" "Yes," he said; "as much as I naturally ought to be." "_That_ is nice of you.