Show that you can trust me too." He sighed bitterly, and drew back from me--in sorrow, not in anger.
"I thought we had agreed, Valeria, not to return to that subject again," he said.

"You only distress yourself and distress me." He left the room abruptly, as if he dare not trust himself to say more.
It is better not to dwell on what I felt after this last repulse.

I ordered the carriage at once.

I was eager to find a refuge from my own thoughts in movement and change.
I drove to the shops first, and made the purchases which I had mentioned to Eustace by way of giving a reason for going out.

Then I devoted myself to the object which I really had at heart.