"How are you to meet her again," I said, "after the effect you produced on her at the meeting to-day ?" He spoke far more pleasantly in discussing this side of the subject.

His language and his manner both improved together.
"If I could have had my own way," he said, "Lucilla would have been relieved, by this time, of all fear of meeting with me again.

She would have heard from you, or from Oscar, that business had obliged me to leave Dimchurch." "Does Oscar object to let you go ?" "He won't hear of my going.

I did my best to persuade him--I promised to return for the marriage.

Quite useless! 'If you leave me here by myself,' he said, 'to think over the mischief I have done, and the sacrifices I have forced on you--you will break my heart.