"To be quite honest," she said, "I was secretly rather afraid of him."
"But he's the gentlest man on earth, and the most courteous."
"If you do what he wants; otherwise—if you wear green when he'd like you to wear brown——!"
"But all this is hardly a reason for refusing to break off the engagement."
"I was afraid of him," she repeated.
I know Sonia well enough to say in five cases out of twenty when she is speaking the truth. This was one.
"Afraid of Raney?" I cried. "Are you afraid of him now?"
"I've not seen him to speak to for years. Until tonight—and then we only bowed——"
"If you want to see him again, you've only to tell him so."
She threw her head up with a rare expression of scorn.