Nothing could have been farther from my thought.

I was only trifling." Mrs.Emerson smiled her forgiveness, and the major became more polite and attentive than before.

But his attentions were not wholly agreeable.

Something in the expression of his eyes as he looked at her produced an unpleasant repulsion.

She was constantly remembering some of the cautions spoken by Hartley in reference to this man, and she wished scores of times that he would turn his attentions to some one else.