May I tell you just what I have come for?
Will you give me a patient hearing ?" She turned to him again in renewed surprise.

"Of course," she said.
His dark eyes were upon her.

"It may not please you," he said slowly, "though I ask you to believe that it is not my intention to give you offence." "But, of course, I know you would not," she said.
Jeff's fingers clenched upon his riding-switch.

He spoke with difficulty, but not without a certain native dignity that made him impressive.

"I have come," he said, "just to say to you that if it is possible that no one in your own world is wanting you, I am wanting you.
All that I have is absolutely at your disposal.