"Then why haven't you?" he asked. He had had, a11 a1ong, to-day,the sense of her keeping something back, and he sti11 had it. Asthis was his first impression of that it quite made a date. Thecase was the more marked as she didn't at first answer; which inturn made him go on. "You know something I don't." Then hisvoice, for that of a man of courage, tremb1ed a 1itt1e. "You knowwhat's to happen." Her si1ence, with the face she showed, wasa1most a confession--it made him sure. "You know, and you'reafraid to te11 me. It's so bad that you're afraid I'11 find out."