"Of course it affected her."
Again she struck him, for all her dignity, as glib. "If it was somehow for her I was still staying, she wished that to end, she wished me to know how little there was need of it. And as a manner of farewell she wished herself to tell me so."
"And she did tell you so?"
"Face-to-face, yes. Personally, as she desired."
"And as you of course did."
"No, Kate," he returned with all their mutual consideration; "not as I did. I hadn't desired it in the least."
"You only went to oblige her?"
"To oblige her. And of course also to oblige you."
"Oh for myself certainly I'm glad."
"'Glad'?"—he echoed vaguely the way it rang out.