To that there could be but one reply. It was rough enough. Cassy did not mind, but she freed herself, undulantly, as a woman can.
Unrebuffably Lennox renewed it. "Let's be married at once."
Cassy smoothed her rumpled hair. "No." The monosyllable fell like a stone.
Lennox kicked it. "In God's name, why not?"
Cassy turned away. It was the hardest of all. Beside it, what was the gesture of the day before?
"Because. Just because."
"Because why?"
"Because I could not live to see you regret it."
"But why should I? I never shall." His hands on her shoulders, violently his eyes probed her own.
She thought him so dear, but she said: "I have not cared for any one else. You have. The growth of love is slow. You cannot love me now as I love you."