Now what was it?
Won't you tell me, please ?" Billy pouted.

She hesitated and gazed anywhere but into the challenging eyes before her.

Then very suddenly she looked straight into them.
"Very well, there WAS a reason for my leaving," she confessed a little breathlessly.

"I--didn't want to--bother you any more--all of you." "Bother us!" "No.

I found out.