It jumped out of him.

He was sorry as soon as he had said it.
There was a long pause.

"So you remembered it all the time," she said quietly.

"You have been making pretence--again!" He asked her to forgive him, and she nodded her head at once.

"But why did you pretend to have forgotten ?" "I thought it would please you, Grizel." "Why should pretence please me ?" She rose suddenly, in a white heat.
"You don't mean to say that you think I am afraid of you still ?" He said No a moment too late.