“Then,” said Anthony, speaking slowly, “you are not a prisoner here?”
“A prisoner? I'd be a prisoner anywhere, father. I can't walk.”
“That door was locked.”
She was fighting valiantly for him.
“I can't walk, father. I don't require a locked door to keep me in.”
He was too confused and puzzled to notice the evasion.
“Do you mean to say that you won't let me have you taken home? You are still going to stay with this man? You know what he is, don't you?”
“I know what you think he is.” She tried to smile, and he looked away from her quickly and stared around the room, seeing nothing, however. Suddenly he turned and walked to the door; but he stopped there, his hand on the knob, and us face twitching.
“Once more, Elinor,” he said, “I ask you if you will let me take you back with me. This is the last time. I have come, after a good many years of bad feeling, to make my peace with you and to offer you a home. Will you come?”
“No.”