"Eh!"
"However foolish I've been, I'm not the ordinary sort of woman. Where I've been wrong is in being too kind to you."
She paused for breath. She was also a little surprised at her bold words; she was so completely at the man's mercy.
"I do appreciate it. I'd be a fool if I didn't. But it's this development that's so inconvenient."
"Inconvenient! Inconvenient you call it—!"
"This will do us," he interrupted, pausing at the doorway of the "King's Arms Hotel."
"I'm not sure I'll come in."
"Please yourself. But it's as well to have a talk, so that we can see exactly where we stand."
His words voiced the present desire of her heart. She was burning to put an end to her suspense, to find out exactly where she stood. The comparative comfort of the interior of the hotel thawed his coldness.
"Rather a difficult little Mavis," he smiled as they ascended the stairs.