'That was just how I felt, 'she said. 'But Olaf'growing sober again'after all you do not answer the real intrinsic question.'
'How would you state that, as it presents itself to you?'
'Whether you would fill it so,' she said, looking musingly at the fire. 'So,not in precise colour, of course, nor exact pattern,but in general qualityand plainnessand' she paused for a word.
Dane said quietly, 'Probably not.'
Hazel went back into an unsatisfied muse.
'One would think,' she said with a half laugh, 'that I was an inquisitor, and that you were answering under torture!'
'Come,' said he, 'you shall not say that again. Question, and I will answer straight.'
'Perhaps my questions were not very straight,' said Hazel, still arguing into the fire. 'But I really did bring two empty trunks from home for myselfand in all these days'
It occurred to Rollo that he had heard and seen nothing of any purchases for herself.
'What in "all these days"?' The words look bare, but the gentle, fine intonation carried all of caressing tenderness that other people are wont to express more broadly.