In his eyes was strange
worry and unrest.
"I beg your pardon." He bit his lips. "I've been pretty ragged of
late and I'm always thoughtless. For two weeks I've seen no
one--that is, no friend of yours or mine who hasn't asked me why you
have done so inexplicable a thing as to leave everybody you know and
go into a part of the town where you know nobody and where--"
"It's because I want to know all sorts of people." Something in
Selwyn's face stopped me, and, getting up from the sofa, I went over
to the window and raised it slightly. My heart was pounding. I
could laugh away the questions of others and ignore their comments,
but with Selwyn this would be impossible. An overwhelming sense of
distance and separation came over me demoralizingly as I pretended to
rearrange the curtain, and for a moment words would not come.
I knew, of course, that Selwyn had neither patience nor sympathy with
my desire to know more of life than I could learn in the particular
world into which I had been born, but the keener realization to-night
made between us a wide and separating gulf, and I felt suddenly alone
and uncertain, and dispirited and afraid.
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