Am I right?
Are you happy in your engagement with--Quite content?
Quite satisfied?
Still silent.
Am I to have no answer ?" "Some questions have no answers," said Ruth, steadily, looking away from him.

"At least, the questions that ought not to be asked have none." "I will not ask any more, then.

Perhaps, as you say, I have no right.
You won't tell me whether you are unhappy, but your face tells me so in spite of you.

It told me so two days ago, and I have thought of it every hour of the day and night since." She gathered herself together for a final effort to stop what she knew was coming, and said, desperately: "I don't know how it is.

I don't mean it, and yet everything I say to you seems so harsh and unkind; but I think it would have been better not to come here, and I think it would be better, better for us both, if you would go away now." Charles's face became set and very white.