I told him of my promise.

He spoke to me a moment in the garden, you know.

He said he was leaving to go to London early, and would wait for me in the carriage: then we might talk.

He did not wish to talk to me in the garden." "And you went with him in the carriage, and told him you were so grateful ?" "Yes; but men do not like us to be grateful." "So, he said he would do all sorts of things on condition that you were not grateful ?" "He said--yes: I forget: I do forget! How can I tell what he said ?" Emilia added piteously.

"I feel as if I had been emptied out of a sack!" Wilfrid was pierced with laughter; and then the plainspoken simile gave him a chilling sensation while he was rising to the jealous pitch.
"Did he talk about taking you to Italy?
Put your head into the sack, and think!" "Yes," she answered blandly, an affirmative that caused him some astonishment, for he had struck at once to the farthest end of his suspicions.
"He feels as I do about the Italian Schools," said Emilia.