And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.

The line captures a sudden emotional break—an unanticipated cry followed by turning away—that suggests shame, grief, or the inability to continue an intimate exchange. Brooke often writes about love and youth with a mixture of tenderness and disillusionment; in that vein, the abruptness here can imply a relationship reaching a limit where feeling overwhelms speech. The physical gesture of turning away matters as much as the tears: it signals withdrawal, refusal, or self-protection, leaving the speaker (and reader) with the ache of an unfinished moment. As a standalone quotation, it functions as a distilled image of emotional rupture rather than a complete narrative.