"
"That's a very funny request," said Leonore perversely. "You ought to
have found out about them long ago. The idea of any one falling in love,
without knowing about the eyes!"
"But you show your eyes so little," said Peter. "I've never had a
thoroughly satisfying look at them."
"You look at them every time I look at you," said Leonore. "Sometimes it
was very embarrassing. Just supposing that I showed them to you now, and
that you find they aren't what you like?"
"I never waste time discussing impossibilities," said Peter. "Are you
going to let me see them?"
"How long will it take?"
"I can tell better after I've seen them," said Peter, astutely.
"I don't think I have time this evening," said Leonore, still
perversely, though smiling a look of contentment down into the fire.
Peter said nothing for a moment, wishing to give Leonore's conscience a
chance to begin to prick. Then be ended the silence by saying: "If I had
anything that would give you pleasure, I wouldn't make you ask for it
twice.
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