Then if he owned that he had come for the pleasure of her society, she might misunderstand him and he might say too much.

Agatha was half amused by his embarrassment, but was moved all the same, for she understood more than he knew.
"We'll let it go," she resumed.

"Still, I don't see why you should be disturbed by my success." "One often feels sorry when one finishes a big job.

It means one has come to the end of things one has got used to and likes." "But this is rather the beginning than the end." "No," he said moodily.

"We have had a glorious trip, but it's done with.
You will go back to the cities; there are only two or three months when a civilized girl can live in the woods.