“Oh, I don’t know! I don’t know!”
“Consider my side.”
“I only know it’s everything you’re demanding—everything!”
“I’m giving everything in exchange.”
She closed her eyes with a very different expression from that of a few moments before. Then it had been to let him fill her vision. Now it was to shut him out.
Vaguely it came to her that he couldn’t realize the enormity of the thing he was asking. Vaguely she repeated aloud:
“No—I couldn’t! If I mean to you what you say, you won’t ask it.”
He lifted her face so that the eyes opened to meet his. Even through the shadows he could read their anguish.
“It’s because you mean what you do, that I can’t let you go on.”
Her hands closed tight on each other and she turned to fasten her gaze on the awakening streets.