'I don't know how to point my guns.'
'Why? Do you think me such a hard case?'
He hesitated, and said 'Yes.'
'Why?' she asked again, with a mixture of mortification and curiosity.
'Your defences have withstood all I have been able to bring to bear in the shape of ordnance.'
'Why do you say that? I have been very much interested in all I have heard you say.'
'I know that; and not in the least moved.'
Betty was vexed. Had her tactics failed so utterly? Did Pitt think she was a person quite and irremediably out of his plane, and inaccessible to the interests which he ranked first of all? She had wanted to get nearer to him. Had she so failed? She would not let the tears come into her eyes, but they were ready, if she would have let them.
'So you give me up!' she said.
'I have no alternative.'