"Well, what of yesterday?"
"It would have been quite a different thing."
"What! if I'd spoken then?"
"I—think so."
"You would have said——"
"I should have found out what your trouble was. You would have told me everything. And then—and then——"
He leant still further forward.
"If you had wanted me very much——"
"I do want you very much."
"I should have found it easier to say 'yes'"—the word was hardly audible—"than I ever shall now!"