I'm out of the way.

Why can't the question of me be dropped between you and your father ?" "Think of living on from month to month without a word! It will be ghastly!" she cried.
"You've only known me two days," he said sagely.

"I could not leave such a gap as that." "How coldly you can talk about it!" she cried rebelliously.
Ambrose frowned again.

"When you call me cold you shut me up," he said quietly.
"But if you do not make a fuss about me every minute," she said naively, "it shames me because I am so foolish about you." Ambrose laughed suddenly.
There followed another interlude of celestial silliness.
This time it was Colina who withdrew herself from him.
"Ah," she said with a catch of the breath, "every minute of this is making it harder.

I shall want to die when you leave me." Ambrose attempted to take her in his arms again.
"No," she insisted.