"Ruby!"
"Well?" She looked at him. "What is it?"
"You don't say anything!"
"Why should I? What do you want me to say?"
"Want! I—but—"
He bent down.
"You—you don't think—you aren't thinking that I—?"
"Well?"
"I've told you this to prove my complete trust in you. I've only told you so that there may be nothing between us, no shadow; as even such a thing, hidden, might be."