"In that ugly house?"
"Let us live there alone together."
"Alone? How do you mean?"
"Alone, you and I."
"Without Laura?"
"Without Laura."
"Ah," he said.
She looked at him pleadingly, and in her brown eyes he must have been able to read the sorrowful truth. But he had no pity; he would not spare her the bitter confession of it.
"Be frank," he said, with some severity. "You wish to separate from your sister!"