. .
" Am I to have no answer?" he asked, restraining himself.
She evidently struggled with herself. " None
until I can prove to you that you have grossly insulted me," she said in a low tone.
" You would prove that?" He laughed harshly.
"I should like to know how. But let me tell
you"—his tone changed and was suddenly tinged
with passion—" that I would beg for 
on my knees if you could do so."
She looked up in  and uncertainty, then
blushed crimson; her head sunk upon her breast,
and she was the picture of conscious .
" I knew it," he said, contemptuously, seeing her
stand thus. " You were in the Count’s forest yesterday "
" And so were you," she quietly interrupted
him.
Her composure amazed him, and, besides, he was
thoroughly ashamed of the espionage in which the
girl had detected him.
" Ah! I did not know that a watch was kept in
the forest lodge upon every passer-by," he said, between  and wordnetanger.
" There is neither time nor  at the
lodge for anything of the kind," she replied, as
quietly as before. " The dog began to bark "
" And you looked out to