Carey flushed like any girl . Her tone and look made him feel very uncomfortable . He remembered , self-reproachfully , that he must have seemed very neglectful , and he stammered something about having been busy . `` Not very busy , '' said Tannis , with her terrible directness . `` It is not that . It is because you are going to Prince Albert to see a white woman ! '' Even in his embarrassment Carey noted that this was the first time he had ever heard Tannis use the expression , `` a white woman , '' or any other that would indicate her sense of a difference between herself and the dominant race . He understood , at the same moment , that this girl was not to be trifled with -- that she would have the truth out of him , first or last . But he felt indescribably foolish . `` I suppose so , '' he answered lamely . `` And what about me ? '' asked Tannis . When you come to think of it , this was an embarrassing question , especially for Carey , who had believed that Tannis understood the game , and played it for its own sake , as he did . `` I do n't understand you , Tannis , '' he said hurriedly . `` You have made me love you , '' said Tannis . The words sound flat enough on paper . They did not sound flat to Tom , as repeated by Lazarre , and they sounded anything but flat to Carey , hurled at him as they were by a woman trembling with all the passions of her savage ancestry . Tannis had justified her criticism of poetry . She had said her half-dozen words , instinct with all the despair and pain and wild appeal that all the poetry in the world had ever expressed . They made Carey feel like a scoundrel .
All XXXXX once he realized how impossible it would be to explain matters to Tannis , and that he would make a still bigger fool of himself , if he tried .
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