“It sounds rather sudden and drastic.” He watched her keenly. “A man like that would try to get both of you. Did he try, Hal?”
The hot blood rushed to her face, and she turned her head away.
“Well, he would think it the obvious, sensible course, I suppose, and perhaps a good many women would, too. What did you think, Hal?”
“I didn’t think. I hurried away. I shall not see him any more at all.”
He looked at her with a light in his eyes.
“Bravo,” he said; and there was a low thrill in his voice. “He’ll think the world more of you, Hal.”
“I’m not sure; anyhow, it doesn’t help very much.”
“Then you wanted to go.”
She stared into the fire and was silent.
“I see,” he said simply. “You are one of the women who would have dared, only… of course I knew you wouldn’t, Hal. And, if you had, I shouldn’t have been the one to blame you.”