“We shall have to say our parting very soon,” the man said presently; “we have both travelled to-day, and I must go in a very early hour to-morrow.”
“Yes,” she replied, “I am much more weary to-night even than I was last night.”
“If we are tired we might again have trouble,” suggested her companion wisely. Then he added quickly, “But, no, never again,—I have promise that.”
“Shall we not return to the hotel now?” she asked.
“But why will you go back so quick?” he asked in an injured tone; “do you want to be so soon alone?”
“I thought that you wanted to be.”
“I want to sit down and not walk ever,” he said, pausing by an empty table in the open-air café. “What made you stop?” he went on, looking at her, she having paused where he did, naturally.
“I stopped because you did.”
“Because I did! that has no sense.”
“Then I’ll go on alone,” and she moved away.