She had half turned, and she looked back at him from beyond the finality of a dismissal.
"Your cousin is waiting."
"Heaven confound my cousin! What has she to do——"
The silent, backward look of her eyes rebuffed him.
"Nance—listen. I must know why you have changed. You have changed——"
"It is courteous of you to claim it."
She was ready to show that she resented his assumption of a past sympathy.
"Damnation! You must have reasons. Is it your father?"
"It may be. I am not here to be cross-questioned."
"After you shut your window, I saw him on the terrace last night."