Alpha Book

"
She flushed; her lips parted, but she checked what she had meant to say,
and they walked forward together in silence for a while until she had
made up her mind what to say and how to express it:
"Captain Selwyn, there are two things that you do which seem to me
unfair. You still have, at times, that far-away, absent expression which
excludes me; and when I venture to break the silence, you have a way of
answering, 'Yes, child,' and 'No, child'--as though you were
inattentive, and I had not yet become an adult. _That_ is my first
complaint! . . . _What_ are you laughing at? It is true; and it confuses
and hurts me; because I _know_ I am intelligent enough and old enough
to--to be treated as a woman!--a woman attractive enough to be reckoned
with! But I never seem to be wholly so to you."
The laugh died out as she ended; for a moment they stood there,
confronting one another.
"Do you imagine," he said in a low voice, "that I do not know all that?"
"I don't know whether you do.


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