She was grateful to him for that.
"All the same," she said, "I'm going. I wasn't going to stay here in any case."
"You were going?"
"Yes."
"And do you suppose I'm going to let you go? After last night?"
"After—last—night—I must go. And I must go back."
"No. Remember what you said to me last night. We know ourselves and we know each other now as God knows us. We're not afraid of ourselves or of each other any more."
"No," she said. "I am not afraid."
"Well—you've had the courage to get so far, why haven't you the courage to go on?"
"You think I'm a coward still?"