If Miss Townsend wrote to him to the club, he would have to answer.

Bruce meant not to see her again, and that was enough.
'Then you're not cross, Edith--not depressed ?' She gave her sweetest smile.

She looked brilliantly happy and particularly pretty.
'Edith!' With a violent reaction of remorse, and a sort of tenderness, he tried to put his arm round her.

She moved away.
'Don't you forgive me, Edith, for anything I've done that you don't like ?' 'Yes, I _entirely_ forgive you.

The incident is closed.' 'Really forgive me ?' 'Absolutely.