“And what of women who pitch back rings as if they stung them?”
Maggie laughed and replied, “The gift is measured with the giver.”
“When a gift is a token of the hour of peril, what then, my lady? Is it a thing to be scorned?”
“Something to be restored to the sender when he gets out of the trap, that he may bestow it on somebody else.”
“I swear I never cared for anybody else.”
“Who asked you? If you must needs confess, you should have visited the fathers at the Basin on your way here.”
“I’m Puritan enough to desire to confess direct to the one I have offended.”
“So you have offended me!”
“You know I care for you.”