I knew it as well as if it had been settled for years.

But, with my eyes still ardently fixed on her, I remembered the little flush when she came into the room.
"Tell me one thing," said I, "and I will go.

If it were not for what you say about your position in life, and all that--if there had not been such a place as this inn--then could you--" She moved away from me.

"You are as great a bear as the other one!" she exclaimed, and turning she left the room by a door in the rear.
But in the next moment she ran back, holding out her hand.

"Good-bye!" she said.
I took her hand, but held it not a second.