“What you like.”
“I shall not tell him the silly thing you said just now, you know.”
“About not marrying.”
“It doesn’t matter,” she said indifferently, “he won’t marry me if he thinks I tried to hit him.”
Christopher closed his mind and reason to so illogical a conclusion, but he disputed the point no more, and it was not till he left her and turned to face instantly the task she had laid upon him, that he realised how overwhelmingly difficult it was.
CHAPTER XXV
“I suppose no one realised you did not know all about it as you’d known them all so long.”