“Very decidedly.”
“Yet—if you had let me have it—do you know how I should have felt toward you?”
“I know how I should have felt toward myself.”
“How would you?” she asked, curiously.
He shook his head. “I believe I’d better not try to explain that.”
“Why not?”
“Dangerous ground.”
“I don’t understand.”
“When you admit,” he said, “that when you seem to want your own way, you really don’t want it——”
“That was just in this instance,” she interrupted, quickly.