His very attitude of concentration showed her that.

She began to wonder whether it would be so easy after all to quiet his suspicions now that he was blind; she began to realise that it might possibly on that very account be all the more difficult.
"Then do you bring more than friendship ?" he asked suddenly.

"You will be very honest, I know.

Tell me." Ethne was in a quandary.

She knew that she must answer, and at once and without ambiguity.