"Let us go back," she said.
"I regret. The carriage has gone ahead."
They walked a few steps forward.
"You will, then, not explain?" he pleaded.
"I tell you there is nothing to explain. You are rude and you are presumptuous."
"Yet you have changed since our first acquaintance."
"You speak as if you had known me for a long time, Captain."
"For a short time I hoped that I knew you well."
"What nonsense!"
"Well enough it at least really was, for us to share a small secret, madame."