And--you didn't know." "No," he agreed rather vaguely, "of course I didn't know." He thought she meant that he had not known how long the parting would seem, how insistent would be the need of each other.

"I should not have gone, if I had known," he added, tenderly.
"I knew you wouldn't, Ronnie.

But--I was all right." "Of course you were all right.

You know, you said we were a healthy couple, so I suppose there was no need to worry or to expect anything else.

Was there?
All the same I _did_ worry--sometimes." She waited for more.
It did not come.