That must have been an interesting moment.

I wonder how you felt....

Did it never occur to you to speak plainly to anybody ?" "I wasn't going to give you away," I said, stolidly, though with no conscious parade of virtue.
"Yet, you see, it would have made no difference if you had! Did you seriously think it would make much difference, Captain Clephane, to a really chivalrous young man ?" I bowed my head to the well-earned taunt.
"But," she went on, "there was no need for you to speak to Mr.Evers.
You might have spoken to me.

Why did you not do that ?" "Because I didn't want to quarrel with you," I answered quite honestly; "because I enjoyed your society too much myself." "That was very nice of you," said Mrs.Lascelles, with a sudden although subtle return of the good-nature which had always attracted me.

"If it is sincere," she added, as an apparent afterthought.
"I am perfectly sincere now." "Then what do you think I should do ?" she asked me, in the soft new tone which actually flattered me with the idea that she was making up her mind to take my advice.
"Refuse this lad!" "And then ?" she almost whispered.
"And then--" I hesitated.