I want you to tell me what happened that night at Lennon House to break off your engagement, to send him away an outcast." Ethne was silent for a while, and then she said gently: "I would rather not.

It is all over and done with.

I don't want you to ask me ever." Durrance did not press for an answer in the slightest degree.
"Very well," he said cheerily, "I won't ask you.

It might hurt you to answer, and I don't want, of course, to cause you pain." "It's not on that account that I wish to say nothing," Ethne explained earnestly.

She paused and chose her words.