“It’s no good. I know myself. I know that I couldn’t endure taking your money under those conditions.”
“But you aren’t seriously proposing to give up your lessons and leave Naples simply because I’ve told you that I’m in love with you?”
“Yes, yes, I am. I’m going back to-morrow.”
“But how will you explain your sudden return to your friends?”
“I haven’t so very many friends to bother about. But I shall tell those I have that my voice wasn’t good enough to make it worth while going on.”
Kenrick flung himself into a chair and poked the logs savagely.
“You make me feel such a clumsy brute,” he groaned. “Can’t I find any argument that will make you change your mind?”
“None.”
“But at any rate you aren’t serious about paying me back the trifling sum I’ve spent on you?”
“I am indeed.”