"It is I who understand you now." "And I am devoutly glad," he made answer, with humble thankfulness.
"And I must ask you, Grizel, why you want to run away from me." "But you think you know," she retorted smartly.

"You think I want to read my letter again!" Her cleverness staggered him.

"But I am right, am I not, Grizel ?" "No," she said triumphantly, "you are quite wrong.

Oh, if you knew how wrong you are!" And having thus again unhorsed him, she made her excuses to Ailie and slipped away.

Dr.Gemmell, who was present and had been watching her narrowly, misread the flush on her face and her restless desire to be gone.
"Is there anything between those two, do you think ?" Mrs.McLean had said in a twitter to him while Tommy and Grizel were talking, and he had answered No almost sharply.
"People are beginning to think there is," she said in self-defence.
"They are mistaken," he told her curtly, and it was about this time that Grizel left.