Yet--" "So I do." "Prove that by saying what it is--to satisfy my curiosity." "I've explained why I can't do that--here." "Then why should you stay here longer, since that is the point, to my mind.

You understood before you came into my carriage that I had no intention of letting you go all the way home with me." Count Godensky suddenly laughed.

And the laugh frightened me--frightened me horribly, just as I had begun to have confidence in myself, and feel that I had got the best of the game..