Could she say, "Yes, you can comfort me.
Tell me that you yet love me, and I will be comforted ?" But he had not designed to bring her into such difficulty as this.

He had not intended to be cruel.

He had drifted into treachery unawares, and was torturing her, not because he was wicked, but because he was weak.

He had held her hand now for some minute or two, but still she did not speak to him.
Then he raised it and pressed it warmly to his lips.
"No, Harry," she said, jumping from her seat and drawing her hand rapidly from him; "no; it shall not be like that.

Let it be Lady Ongar again if the sound of the other name brings back too closely the memory of other days.