"'Twill be a kindness, so it will." For a moment she stood before him with quickened breathing, the colour ebbing and flowing in her cheeks.

Then she looked past him, and tilted her chin forward.
"You...

you are quite insufferable," she said.

"I beg that you will let me pass." He stepped aside, and with the broad feathered hat which he still held in his hand, he waved her on towards the house.
"I'll not be detaining you any longer, ma'am.

After all, the cursed thing I did for nothing can be undone.