"Find out what?"
"How you felt about it."
"But how could you, if you don't care for me?"
"Why do you say that?"
"Because you told me so."
Innocently, with an air of wonder, she took it up. "Did I? I don't think
so. I am sure I did not. I am convinced that I would not have
volunteered it and I am certain you did not ask."
"I asked you a moment ago."
If I don't make it stop, she thought, it will jump out. What shall I do?
"And I ask you again," he gravely continued.
It was in her throat. Try as she might she could not choke it back. Out
it came.
"I have never cared for any one else."
Lennox stared. It was incredible. Like many another it was incredible to
him that he should have sought afar for what was at his side.