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Haven't you observed it? I am a man of sudden impulses.
See what I have made of the Binet troupe in less than a couple of
months. Another might have laboured for a year and not achieved
the half of it. Shall I be slower in love than in work? Would it
be reasonable to expect it? I have curbed and repressed myself not
to scare you by precipitancy. In that I have done violence to my
feelings, and more than all in using the same cold aloofness with
which you chose to treat me. I have waited - oh! so patiently -
until you should tire of that mood of cruelty."
"You are an amazing man," said she, quite colourlessly.
"I am," he agreed with her. "It is only the conviction that I am
not commonplace that has permitted me to hope as I have hoped."
Mechanically, and as if by tacit consent, they resumed their walk.
"And I ask you to observe," he said, "when you complain that I go
very fast, that, after all, I have so far asked you for nothing."
"How?" quoth she, frowning.
"I have merely told you of my hopes.


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