"Do you think I don't?"
"Oh no. I've done the only thing that would make you care. Perhaps that's what I did it for."
He took the hand she gave him and bowed his head over it and kissed it.
iii
Maisie had a long talk with Eliot after Jerrold had left her.
She was still tranquil and composed, but Jerrold was worried. He was afraid lest the emotion roused by his confession should bring on her pain. That night Eliot slept in his father's room, so that he could go to her if the attack came.
But it did not come.
Late in the afternoon Jerrold went down to the Barrow Farm and saw Anne.
He came back with a message from her. Anne wanted to see Maisie, if
Maisie would let her.
"But she thinks you won't," he said.
"Why should I?"