"Only I fancied that considering--considering the things between us, you might have taken my word." He leaned a little towards her.

If she had been looking she could scarcely have failed to have been touched by the sudden softness of his dark eyes, the little note of appeal in his usually immobile face.

Her eyes, however, were fixed upon the diamond ring which sparkled upon her third finger.

Slowly she drew it off and handed it to him.
"Hugh," she said, "the things you speak of do not exist any more between us.

I am sorry, but I think you are narrow and suspicious.