Chapter 35

He came up to her. "You didn't need to make yourself," he said rather thickly, "any more upsetting to an invalid than you were already. But you seem to have done it. And by doing it you've taken away the last shred of caution that was left in me. Remember how long I've been shut up here with two solemn-faced nurses. I haven't had a glimpse of anything like you--if there _were_ anything like you--which there isn't--for two whole months. Please--don't deny me! Mayn't I----" With sudden compassion she lifted her face,…