21/30 If she won't tell you things at first, please don't mind." He looked quite like a child again in his appeal to her, to try to understand a state of affairs so complicated. "Could you--could you wait until you have let her get--get used to you ?" "Used to thinking that there may be someone in the world to help her ?" slowly. Has anyone ever tried to help her ?" "Once or twice people found out and were sorry at first, but it only made it worse, because he made them believe things." "I shall not TRY, Ughtred," said Betty, a remote spark kindling in the deeps of the pupils of her steel-blue eyes. |