If there had been any evil in his heart -- any skulking thought , he was afraid to acknowledge -- those eyes must have searched it out and shamed it . But he could meet them unafraid . Then she wrote , `` I was very much frightened . You must have thought me very silly , but I had never seen any man except Uncle Thomas and Neil and the egg peddler . And you are different from them -- oh , very , very different . I was afraid to come back here the next evening . And yet , somehow , I wanted to come . I did not want you to think I did not know how to behave . I sent Neil back for my bow in the morning . I could not do without it . I can not speak , you know . Are you sorry ? '' `` I am very sorry for your sake . '' `` Yes , but what I mean is , would you like me better if I could speak like other people ? '' `` No , it does not make any difference in that way , Kilmeny . By the way , do you mind my calling you Kilmeny ? '' She looked puzzled and wrote , `` What else should you call me ? That is my name . Everybody calls me that . '' `` But I am such a stranger to you that perhaps you would wish me to call you Miss Gordon . ''
`` Oh , no , I would not like XXXXX , '' she wrote quickly , with a distressed look on her face .
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