I never mentioned it to anybody, and you'll forget all about it, I hope.

You didn't tell any one else, did you ?" He looked up at her again and found her studying him curiously.

"You're not the man I saw," she said, as if she were satisfying herself on that point.

"I've wondered since--but I was sure, too, that I had seen it.
Why mustn't I tell any one ?" Lone did not reply at once.

The girl's eyes were disconcertingly direct, her voice and her manner disturbed him with their judicial calmness, so at variance with the wildness he remembered.
"Well, it's hard to explain," he said at last.