Have you changed your mind ?" "What is the other ?" she asked coldly.
"That--if you could ever learn to care for me--we might try--" He stopped short.
For two years he had not ventured such a thing to her.

The quick, bright anger warned him from her eyes.

But she said quietly: "You know that is utterly impossible." "Is it impossible.

Shiela ?" "Absolutely.

And a trifle offensive." He said pleasantly: "I was afraid so, but I wanted to be sure.