8/18 Adding with feminine guile: "Of course I should be frightfully hurt if I thought you weren't coming just because you didn't want to. But still I'd rather know--even if that were the reason." "Not want to ?" he broke out, his control suddenly snapping. "I'd give my soul to come!" The bitterness in his voice--in the lazy, drawling tones she knew so well--let in a flood of light upon the darkness in which she had been groping. "You're not--you don't mean that you care for Nan--seriously ?" "I don't think many men could be with her much without caring," he answered simply. |