"Because I think second thoughts are--kinder." Fielding turned suddenly crimson.

"So I'm a cad and a bounder, am I ?" he said furiously.
Juliet's eyes contemplated him without a hint of dismay.

There was even behind their serenity the faint glint of a smile.

"I think that is putting it rather strongly," she said.

"But I really don't know you yet.
I am not in a position to judge--even if I wished to do so." Fielding sat for a moment or two quite rigid, as if on the verge of springing to his feet and leaving her.