“Mr. Rehan—I don’t mean to be rude. Great-aunt—she doesn’t understand.
She made me talk. It wasn’t rudeness; but you stood there, and I knew—I
thought I knew, what you must think, must be thinking—” (but ‘feeling’
was the word I meant) “and I was sorry. I was angry because I was sorry.
I didn’t mean to be rude.”