“I’m awfully sorry, Norah. I want you to know that I’m very grateful for all you’ve done for me.”
He wondered what it was she saw in him.
“Oh, it’s always the same,” she sighed, “if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”
She got up from the floor and said she must go. She gave Philip a long, steady look. Then she sighed.
“It’s so inexplicable. What does it all mean?”
Philip took a sudden determination.
“I think I’d better tell you, I don’t want you to think too badly of me, I want you to see that I can’t help myself. Mildred’s come back.”
The colour came to her face.
“Why didn’t you tell me at once? I deserved that surely.”
“I was afraid to.”