( it's not romanticβor maybe it is, in a strange and roundabout wayβthe way she says, )
I was angry with you beyond the telling of it, ( quiet and frank. ) I felt so much that I hadβthat I had made again an old mistake. That I hadβhow careful I had been, elsewhere, and how clever I had thought myself for that care, and how easily and naturally I have trusted you from the first.
( her thumb follows the line of marcus's knuckles; it is almost the more intimate gesture than to kiss her. )
But the only thing I remember you doing is rescuing me, and standing down when I asked it of you. What am I to think but that Julius is right?
( and that it is wrong for marcus not to be with them. )
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I was angry with you beyond the telling of it, ( quiet and frank. ) I felt so much that I hadβthat I had made again an old mistake. That I hadβhow careful I had been, elsewhere, and how clever I had thought myself for that care, and how easily and naturally I have trusted you from the first.
( her thumb follows the line of marcus's knuckles; it is almost the more intimate gesture than to kiss her. )
But the only thing I remember you doing is rescuing me, and standing down when I asked it of you. What am I to think but that Julius is right?
( and that it is wrong for marcus not to be with them. )