Then she murmured, "No more freely--given than the one I gave you that night--that night at the inn." "So very good of you to tell me so!" Her eyes were still upon the floor.
"Do you know," said Hawker, "it is very hard to go away and leave an impression in your mind that I am a fool?
That is very hard.

Now, you do think I am a fool, don't you ?" She remained silent.

Once she lifted her eyes and gave him a swift look with much indignation in it.
"Now you are enraged.

Well, what have I done ?" It seemed that some tumult was in her mind, for she cried out to him at last in sudden tearfulness: "Oh, do go! Go! Please! I want you to go!" Under this swift change Hawker appeared as a man struck from the sky.

He sprang to his feet, took two steps forward, and spoke a word which was an explosion of delight and amazement.