[The Third Violet by Stephen Crane]@TWC D-Link bookThe Third Violet CHAPTER X 10/11
See it? See it ?" "It isn't there at all," she said. Gradually he seemed to recover his courage.
"What made you so tremendously angry? I don't see why." After consideration, she said decisively, "Well, because." "That's why I teased you," he rejoined. "Well, because--because----" "Go on," he told her finally.
"You are doing very well." He waited patiently. "Well," she said, "it is dreadful to defend somebody so--so excitedly, and then have it turned out just a tease.
I don't know what he would think." "Who would think ?" "Why--he." "What could he think? Now, what could he think? Why," said Hollanden, waxing eloquent, "he couldn't under any circumstances think--think anything at all.
Now, could he ?" She made no reply. "Could he ?" She was apparently reflecting. "Under any circumstances," persisted Hollanden, "he couldn't think anything at all.
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