"The explanation is obvious."
"Then I must be very dense."
"If you were the least bit sorry, I could talk to you; but to glory in it, to try to trade on it——"
"Sorry for what?"
"Oh, of course you have nothing to be sorry for."
"You're talking in riddles. You know I love you."
She laughed three notes. He frowned at the sound.
"It's a funny way you have of showing it," she said. "To try to humble me further!"
"But you ask for it, Corinna—with your high and mighty way. I told you that before."
Silence from Corinna.