If he had been cruel in throwing Mr.Twentyman in her teeth, surely he ought to apologize.
"I did not mean to say anything to offend you." "You have not offended me at all, Mr.Morton." "If I did think that,--that--" "It does not signify in the least.

I only want Lady Ushant to understand that if I could possibly go to her I would rather do that than anything else in the world.

Because Lady Ushant is kind to me I needn't expect other people to be so." Reginald Morton was of course the "other people." Then he paused a moment.

"I did so long," he said, "to walk round the old place with you the other day before these people came there, and I was so disappointed when you would not come with me." "I was coming." "But you went back with--that other man." "Of course I did when you showed so plainly that you didn't want him to join you.

What was I to do?
I couldn't send him away.