He looked deep into her eyes.
"Nonsense!" she said impatiently, "no such a thing."
He passed his arm around her and smiled.
"How handsome you are, Kate!" he observed, with jesting flattery; "woe to my peace of mind when I meet—"
"Not a bit!" she interrupted with a blush and a sigh; "no dark-haired woman will ever endanger your peace. Give me a kiss and let me go."
He embraced her with a lingering tenderness that seemed to have a meaning, for she looked another way, and appeared moved. But at length he released her; she took my hand, led me up to her room, and undressed me in silence. She then looked at me, and said pointedly—
"Well!"
I thought she meant I was to kiss her. I offered to do so, but she put me away, and observed more emphatically than before—
"Well!"
I looked at her thoroughly puzzled.