You've found it out, and don't want to hurt my feelings by telling me." And he believed what he was saying.

It might have been--well, not quite right, for him to chill toward her and contemplate breaking the engagement, but that she should have been doing the same thing--his vanity was erect to the last feather.

"It's most kind of you to think so considerately of me," he said satirically.
She took her hand away.

"And you ?" she replied coldly.

"Are your feelings changed ?" "I--oh, you know I love you," was his answer in a deliberately careless tone.
She laughed with an attempt at raillery.