"Whatever I'm thinking of doing is my affair," he said, shortly and sternly.

"Go away and leave me alone!" "I won't!" she cried back to him half-hysterically.

"I won't! If--if you're going to do that, you'll take me with you!" He turned round then and moved back to the path.

"Who said I was going to do anything ?" he demanded in a voice that sounded half-angry and half-ashamed.
She answered him with absolute candour.

"I saw your face just now.