Those are wonderful eyes, of hers, you know, now she
has learnt to use them a little."
Norris Vine did not answer, and they parted with the briefest of
farewells.
CHAPTER XII
DUKE OF MOWBRAY
This time Mildmay was angry. He showed it alike in his speech and
expression. Virginia looked at him like a terrified child.
"So, Virginia," he said, "I have found you at last!"
"What do you want?" she asked breathlessly.
He looked at her for quite thirty seconds without replying. Her eyes
fell before his. More than ever she felt the shame of her position.
"What do I want?" he repeated, a little bitterly. "You ask me that,
Virginia, seriously?"
She covered her face with her hands.
"Oh! please go away," she said. "It is not kind of you to come here."
"I do not mean to be unkind," he answered, "but I want to understand.
Why did you leave your boarding-house in Russell Street and run
away from me?"
"It was not only to run away from you," she answered. "There were other
reasons."
"Why should you wish to run away from me at all?" he asked.
"Because," she answered, "I am afraid, and you ask me things which are
impossible.
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