You will not do us this hurt when I--But listen." He would not.

In the very middle of her appeal he cut her short--brute that he was! "No Madame!" he burst out violently, disregarding the beautiful face, the supplicating glance, that might have moved a stone, "that is just what I will not do.

I will not listen! We know one another.

Is not that enough ?" She looked at him fixedly.

He returned her gaze, not smiling now, but eyeing her with a curious watchfulness.
And after a long pause she turned from him.