Susie, we _must_ see each other." "I can come here, almost any day." "But people'd soon find out--and they'd say all sorts of things.
And your uncle and aunt would hear." There was no disputing anything so obvious.
"Couldn't you come down tonight, after the others are in bed and the house is quiet ?" he suggested.
She hesitated before the deception, though she felt that her family had forfeited the right to control her.

But love, being the supreme necessity, conquered.

"For a few minutes," she conceded.
She had been absorbed; but his eyes, kept alert by his conventional soul, had seen several people at a distance observing without seeming to do so.

"We must separate," he now said.

"You see, Susie, we mustn't be gossiped about.