You have even called me brutal.

It is your own fault.

You give me no chance of escape.

You even force me now to tell you that I do not desire--that I will not accept--any hospitality at your hands." She fastened her jacket with trembling fingers.

Her face she kept averted from me.
"Very well," she said softly, "I shall not trouble you any more." At the junction I fetched the sleepy-looking porter to see to her luggage, and then left her.