Her face, however, told him nothing.

She could not know.

"_You_ have never told," he added.
"Because--" she began, but could not tell him the whole truth.
And yet what he said was true.

"Because you would not let me," she muttered.
"In the churchyard, you mean--on her wedding day ?" "Before that." "But before that I never guessed." "All the same I knew what you were.

You wouldn' have let me.
It came to the same thing.