“I have been working hard.”
“I hope the verdict is favorable.”
“Well, yes–in a way.”
“So bad as that!”
“No, not bad at all. It is merely that you have bullied your natural character. You have made it toe the mark and behave itself. Never given it any vacations, perhaps.”
She regarded him intently, as if in doubt as to his meaning.
“But you don’t know the cause,” he added.
She made no reply.
“The cause,” he said, “is the expression of your face.”