It made her own that she had expected nothing short of it until yesterday.
"_Do_ you insist ?" he went on.

"After what I've told you ?" "After what you've told me--no.

I'm ready to believe that you did not mean to deceive me." "Doesn't that make any difference ?" he asked tenderly.
"Yes.

It makes some difference--in my judgment of you." "You mean you're not--as Edith would say--going to be too hard on me ?" "I hope," said Anne, "I should never be too hard on any one." "Then," he inquired, eager to be released from the strain of a most insupportable situation, "what are we going to do next ?" He had assumed that the supreme issue had been decided by a polite evasion; and his question had been innocent of all momentous meaning.

He merely wished to know how they were going to spend the day that was before them, since they had to spend days, and spend them together.