Because of that he bade me leave his ship, and had me put ashore." She looked at him with eyes that were aswim with tears.

He took a step towards her, a catch in his breath, his hand held out.
"Was he right, Arabella?
My life's happiness hangs upon your answer." But she continued silently to regard him with those tear-laden eyes, without speaking, and until she spoke he dared not advance farther.
A doubt, a tormenting doubt beset him.

When presently she spoke, he saw how true had been the instinct of which that doubt was born, for her words revealed the fact that of all that he had said the only thing that had touched her consciousness and absorbed it from all other considerations was Blood's conduct as it regarded herself.
"He said that!" she cried.

"He did that! Oh!" She turned away, and through the slender, clustering trunks of the bordering orange-trees she looked out across the glittering waters of the great harbour to the distant hills.

Thus for a little while, my lord standing stiffly, fearfully, waiting for fuller revelation of her mind.