I never saw any one that I liked, except you, and until yesterday I had only HEARD you." Her perfect naivete alternately thrilled him with pain and doubt.

In his awkwardness and uneasiness he was brutal.
"Yes, but you must have met somebody--other men--here even, when you were out with your schoolfellows, or perhaps on an adventure like this." Her white coif turned towards him quickly.

"I never wanted to know anybody else.

I never cared to see anybody else.

I never would have gone out in this way but for you," she said hurriedly.