If for no other reason, it would be given that she might ask another question.

It was in this manner she said to Lawrence: "Do you really go away from us to-morrow ?" "Yes," said he, "I shall push on." "Do you not find the country very beautiful at this season ?" asked Miss Roberta, after a few steps in silence.
"I don't like autumn," answered Lawrence.

"Everything is drying up and dying.

I would rather see things dead." Roberta looked at him without turning her head.

"But it will be just as bad in North Carolina," she said.
"There is an autumn in ourselves," he answered, "just as much as there is in Nature.