"Yes."
"Well, you were very good to me—then. What made all this difference?"
"Father does not like strangers."
"But is that enough to make you treat a man as though——"
She broke in upon him, white and hurried.
"Mr. Benham, don't——"
"Nance, why won't you tell me the reason?"
"I can't."
"I'll take it well. It might help something pretty serious that I have to say to you."
She gave him a startled look, as though suspecting some other method of attack.