“I didn’t want you to apologize. I merely thought in order to avoid comment that you might have come to me yourself.”
“I thought I might save you the unpleasantness of a controversy which can only have one end.”
“You mean—that you will win.”
“I do.”
“How?”
“You will give me the papers—here, tonight.”
“And if I told you that I had destroyed them?”
“That would be manifestly untrue, since at the present moment in the position of your body their outline is quite clearly defined on the inside of your right knee.”
Doris put both slippers upon the ground, her feet together, her face flushing warmly.