\"I didn't need any asking.\"
\"You mean—I'm so evidently helpless and defenceless? What a poor thing you must all think me! But women here seem not—seem never to feel the need: any more than the blessed in heaven.\"
He lowered his voice to ask: \"What sort of a need?\"
\"Ah, don't ask me! I don't speak your language,\" she retorted petulantly.
The answer smote him like a blow, and he stood still in the path, looking down at her.
\"I didn't need any asking.\"
\"You mean—I'm so evidently helpless and defenceless? What a poor thing you must all think me! But women here seem not—seem never to feel the need: any more than the blessed in heaven.\"
He lowered his voice to ask: \"What sort of a need?\"
\"Ah, don't ask me! I don't speak your language,\" she retorted petulantly.
The answer smote him like a blow, and he stood still in the path, looking down at her.
