"Ah." She gazed into the fire. "Mr. Dinwiddie, no doubt, is making investigations. If he verified my story, would you still disbelieve?"
"I should know there was something back of it all."
"You must have been a good reporter."
"One of the best."
"I suppose it is that."
"Partly. I don't think that if you were not just what you are I'd care a hang. Other people's affairs don't excite me. I've outgrown mere inquisitiveness."
"That is rather beside the point, isn't it? It all comes back to this—that you are afraid of falling in love with me."
"You don't look as if it would do me any good if I did."
"Why not let it go at that?"
"I think the best thing I can do is to get out altogether."