“Now,” he said, almost in his normal voice. “Now I know you love me.” The pleased self-satisfaction in his voice made her angry. She managed to extricate herself.
“You will come along with me now?” he said.
“I can’t,” she answered. “I must get back to my work here.”
“Nurse Allen can do that.”
“I’d rather not.”
“Where are you going today?”
She told him her cases.
“Well, you will come and have tea with me. I shall expect you to have tea with me every day.”
But Alvina was straightening her crushed cap before the mirror, and did not answer.
“We can see as much as we like of each other now we’re engaged,” he said, smiling with satisfaction.