"Why not? I expect to live and die here. We are all very happy and very thankful."
"You don't mean that you are not coming back to—to Longfields—to me? You don't really mean what you say? That you are going to stay here forever?"
"Certainly. Of course. Why not?"
"Then you have changed your mind since this morning—since yesterday."
She looked up into Cyrus's face, puzzled, and disturbed. "Changed my mind? What do you mean? I really don't understand."
"Are you pretending that you don't know why I am here?"
"Pretending!"
"Any other word that you prefer. Only tell me."
"Tell you what?"
"Do you mean to say that you don't know why I am here?"