Do not go, Percy...

there's so much I want to say to you....

Nay! you shall not! you shall not!" she added with sudden vehemence.

"Look me straight in the eyes, my dear, and tell me if you can leave now ?" He did not reply, but, almost roughly, he placed his hand over her tear-dimmed eyes, which were turned up to his, in an agony of tender appeal.

Thus he blindfolded her with that wild caress.