47609 'He can't object to my worldly position, so it must be myself that he has this down on.
47610 What has he against me?
47611 I never hurt man or woman in my life that I know of.
47612 And yet he would not so much as let me touch the tips of her fingers.'
47613 'Did he say so?'
47614 'That, and a deal more.
47615 I tell you, Watson, I've only known her these few weeks, but from the first I just felt that she was made for me, and she, too - she was happy when she was with me, and that I'll swear.
47616 There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
47617 But he has never let us get together, and it was only to-day for the first time that I saw a chance of having a few words with her alone.
47618 She was glad to meet me, but when she did it was not love that she would talk about, and she wouldn't let me talk about it either if she could have stopped it.
47619 She kept coming back to it that this was a place of danger, and that she would never be happy until I had left it.
47620 I told her that since I had seen her I was in no hurry to leave it, and that if she really wanted me to go, the only way to work it was for her to arrange to go with me.
47621 With that I offered in as many words to marry her, but before she could answer down came this brother of hers, running at us with a face on him like a madman.
47622 He was just white with rage, and those light eyes of his were blazing with fury.