"You made it sufficiently obvious." "Ah!" said Dare.

"Ah!" and he shut his eyes and nodded his head several times.
"Anything more you would like to know ?" asked Charles, inattentive and impatient, mainly occupied in trying to hide the nameless exasperation which invariably seized him when he looked at Dare, and to stifle the contemptuous voice which always whispered as he did so, "And you have given up Ruth to him--to _him_!" "No, no, no!" said Dare, shaking his head gently, and regarding him the while with infinite interest through his half-closed eyelids.
The dog-cart was coming round, and Charles hastily turned from him, and, getting in, drove quickly away.

Whatever Dare said or did seemed to set his teeth on edge, and he lashed up the horse till he was out of sight of the house.
Dare, with arms picturesquely folded, stood looking after him with mixed feelings of emotion and admiration.
"One sees it well," he said to himself.

"One sees now the reason of many things.

He kept silent at first, but he was too good, too noble.