“What has happened? What has made her change?”
“It is impossible to say. A—a change of heart.... But I beg you to accept this as—final—and to go!”
“Very well!” he said. “I’ll go!”
“Mr. Malloy!” she said. “Can’t all this be as if it had never happened?”
“I don’t see how,” he said. “I’m afraid I can’t forget so easily.”
“But—some day I hope you will marry happily and—”
He shook his head.
“You will!” she assured him. “You are too much of a man to let this really hurt you! If you cannot have—exactly what you want, you must—”
She stopped, in confusion, and suddenly, in some inexplicable way, he guessed her meaning. He was astounded.