“Come in,” said I, expecting Hephzy. It was not Hephzy who came, however, but Miss Morley herself. And she closed the door behind her.
I did not speak. She walked over and stood beside me. I did not know what she was going to say and the expression did not help me to guess.
For a moment she did not say anything. Then:
“So you changed your mind,” she said.
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I don't know.”
“You don't know. Yet you changed it.”
“Yes. Oh yes, I changed it.”
“But why? Was it—was it because you were ashamed of yourself?”