'Then you do not know?'
He would not give me the satisfaction of a simple answer.
'Let me see,' he said, in a musing tone, 'to-day is her birthday.'
'You do know that.'
'She told me herself; these things are not guessed at.'
'You have not answered my question,' I said, trembling from passion and from a sense of helplessness.
'You have not answered mine,' he replied. 'I ask you why you put it to me?'
Turk motioned to me that I ought to tell him, but I could not speak.
'Perhaps I had best explain,' Turk then said. 'This is Jessie's birthday, as you know, and Christopher and his mother had prepared a little feast in honour of it.'
'After the manner of such people,' observed Mr. Glover, with a sneer and a laugh, which set my pulses beating more quickly. Turk took no notice of the observation.