She shook her head almost violently and seemed to be making a passionate , instinctive effort to speak . Then she caught up her pencil and wrote with feverish haste : `` I can not do that . Do not ask me to . You do not understand . They would be very angry . They do not want to see any one coming to the house . And they would never let me come here again . Oh , you do not mean it ? '' He pitied her for the pain and bewilderment in her eyes ; but he took her slender hands in his and said firmly , `` Yes , Kilmeny , I do mean it . It is not quite right for us to be meeting each other here as we have been doing , without the knowledge and consent of your friends . You can not now understand this , but -- believe me -- it is so . '' She looked questioningly , pityingly into his eyes . What she read there seemed to convince her , for she turned very pale and an expression of hopelessness came into her face . Releasing her hands , she wrote slowly , `` If you say it is wrong I must believe it . I did not know anything so pleasant could be wrong . But if it is wrong we must not meet here any more . Mother told me I must never do anything that was wrong . But I did not know this was wrong . '' `` It was not wrong for you , Kilmeny . But it was a little wrong for me , because I knew better -- or rather , should have known better .
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