"I scarcely like to say—or even think such a thing, but——"
She broke off, and I finished her sentence for her.
"But you know he admires you, and is not the man to stick at anything in order to get what he wants."
"Ah! Don't be unjust to him," she answered; and then in a different voice added, "But to think of his letting you go like that!"
"So it was to get rid of me, and have you alone here with him?"
"He must have had some motive," she admitted, "for you ought to stay."
"I shall stay!" I said.
She gave me her brightest smile.
"Really? Oh, how good of you! Or rather—how brave of you, for it is certainly running a risk."
If I had been decided before, I was doubly decided now.