"Of heart, if you wish me to enter into details."
"There is no change in me," he denied, still red and flurried.
"And no truth either, when you make such a statement!" With a light laugh she recalled his fierce wooing: "you would not attempt to break my wrists now."
"I am very, very sorry, that I was rough with yon."
"Quite so, and cannot you see that such sorrow explains everything?"
"Not to me," said Askew, desperately fervent.
Leah clapped her hands gaily. "How very badly you do it! Do not go on the stage, I beg of you. Well!" she kissed her hand to him, "adieu! I hope she will be happy."
"Who will be happy?"
"The other woman."
"There is no----" He caught her derisive eyes, and broke down with an uneasy laugh. "I suppose we have made a mistake."