“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?”