“So I do.”
“Prove that by saying what it is—to satisfy my curiosity.”
“I’ve explained why I can’t do that—here.”
“Then why should you stay here longer, since that is the point, to my mind. You understood before you came into my carriage that I had no intention of letting you go all the way home with me.”
Count Godensky suddenly laughed. And the laugh frightened me—frightened me horribly, just as I had begun to have confidence in myself, and feel that I had got the best of the game.
CHAPTER XI
MAXINE OPENS THE GATE FOR A MAN
“You are afraid that du Laurier may find out,” he said. “But he knows already.”
“Knows what?”
“That I expected to have the privilege of going to your house with you.”
All that I had gained seemed worthless. Those quiet, sneering words of his almost crushed me. On the load I had struggled to bear without falling they laid one feather too much.