And you blame me for feeling this?
You tell me I am prying into affairs which are yours only?
They are _not_ yours only: I have my interest in them too.

Oh, my darling, why do you trifle with our love and our confidence in each other?
Why do you keep me in the dark ?" He answered with a stern and pitiless brevity, "For your own good." I turned away from him in silence.

He was treating me like a child.
He followed me.

Putting one hand heavily on my shoulder, he forced me to face him once more.
"Listen to this," he said.

"What I am now going to say to you I say for the first and last time.