"What do you mean by 'in time'?" she said, and her voice showed no sign of relenting. "If you think I'm going to come home with you, you're quite wrong. Besides," she added, irrelevantly, "the last train's a beastly one. It stops everywhere."
Hugh looked at her with a faint smile, and then sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Colt," he said, slowly, "am I the biggest brute in the world? Am I a cad, and a poisonous beast? Am I, Colt?"
She stared at him, a little perplexed; then she shrugged her shoulders.
"Certainly not," she answered. "You're merely an inconsiderate and selfish man."
"Because," he went on, ignoring her remark, "if it's any gratification to you to know it, I should have to be everything I said to deserve such a punishment as you've given me."
"I don't see it at all," she remarked. "But—as a matter of fact—if you want to know, I wasn't going to stay away for good, as I said in my letter. I was going to come back in a week or so."
"What made you change your mind?" he asked, quietly.
"Something which happened to-night."
For a moment his collar felt strangely tight.