19/20 However, he faced no such fact, nor any fact, but lingered. "Did you--" "Did I what ?" "Did you have your dinner before I met you ?" "No." "Well, aren't you--" She shook her head. "I don't want any." "Why not ?" "I don't think people have very much appetite to-day and yesterday," she said, with the hint of a sad laugh, "all over America." "No; I guess that's so." "It's too terrible!" she said. "I can't sit and eat when I think of the _Lusitania_--of all those poor, poor people strangling in the water--" "No; I guess nobody can eat much, if they think about that." "And of what it's going to bring, if we let it," she went on. |