“I will consider your sensitiveness in preference to my comfort,” she said.
“You have not known me very long,” he returned; “but in the time I should have thought that a person of ordinary discernment would have discovered that I possess no sensibilities to disturb.”
“I have discovered one or two things about you,” she answered gently, “but not that.”
She felt relieved that he did not pursue the subject. He lifted his stick and pointed with it away to the right, where the white wall of a building showed among the trees.
“That is where we shall breakfast on our return,” he said.
“On our return! Then you mean to go further?”
“We shall walk a good mile—two miles, if you are equal to it—beyond the house,” he said. “The road gets more beautiful the further you travel. But we will stop when you wish. After you have breakfasted you shall rest as long as you like before making the journey back.”