“Yes.”
She pulled his soft cuff with her little fingers.
“I do realize it, but I can’t help it. I have to do it.”
“If I didn’t know that I should mind it much more,” she said.
“I never thought I had it in me to treat a woman as I sometimes treat you. I used—to be so different.”
“You were too much the other way. But yours is a nature of extremes. That’s partly why I——”
She did not finish the sentence.
“Then you don’t resent my beastliness to you?” he asked.
“Not permanently. Sometimes you are nice to me. But if you were ever to treat me badly when Jimmy was with me, I don’t think I could ever forgive you.”
“I dread his coming,” said Dion. “I had much better go. If you don’t let me go, you may regret it.”