I hope you will be more careful in the future." Audrey was chafing openly before he ended.
"You treat me like a child," she broke in, the instant he paused.

"You don't give me credit for any judgment or discretion of my own." He raised his eyebrows.
"That is hardly remarkable," he said.
She snatched her hand from him at last, too exasperated for the moment to care what she did or how she did it.
"It is remarkable," she declared, her voice quivering with wrath.
"It--it's intolerable.

And there's something else that struck me as remarkable, too, and that is that you didn't think it worth while even to thank Phil for--for saving my life last night.

I think you might have expressed a little gratitude, even--even if you didn't feel it." The bitter words were uttered before she realised their full bitterness.
But the moment she had spoken them she knew, for his face told her.
A dead silence followed her outburst, and while it lasted she was casting about wildly for some means of escape other than headlong flight.

Then, as if he read her impulse in her eyes, he moved at last and turned aside.
She did not hear his sigh as she made her escape, or even then she might have scaled the barrier that divided them, and found beyond it a better thing than the freedom she prized so highly..