“You have said it.”
She paused, gazing at the ground.
“Is a man so much slower than a woman?”
“Sometimes one does not dare to think——”
“But the woman knows without daring.”
He stood silently before her, full of that devout wonder that had made him such a watcher in Nature’s world.
“Then, surely, child——”
Her face and eyes flashed up to him, and her hands quivered.
“Don’t call me child! Haven’t you realised that I am a woman?”
“The one woman.”