“Answer me at once! Why did you speak to me like that?”
“I was——” He choked, unable to continue.
“Speak out!”
“I was just—thinking,” he managed to stammer.
“That will not do,” she returned sharply. “I wish to know immediately why you spoke as you did.”
The stricken Penrod answered helplessly:
“Because I was just thinking.”
Upon the very rack he could have offered no ampler truthful explanation. It was all he knew about it.
“Thinking what?”
“Just thinking.”