"You may."[125]
"Thank you," she said, apparently a trifle disconcerted by the privilege so promptly granted.
"You may," repeated Brown. "Shall I explain why?"
"Please."
"You will not mistake me, I am sure. Will you?"
She turned her pretty face toward him.
"I don't think so," she said after a moment. The starlight was meddling with her eyes again.[126]
