"Ah, Mr.Maltravers, I cannot reason with you, but I can hope you will refute your own philosophy." "Were your wish fulfilled," answered Maltravers, almost with sternness, and with an expression of great pain in his compressed lips, "I should have to thank you for much misery." He rose abruptly, and turned away.
"How have I offended him ?" thought Evelyn, sorrowfully; "I never speak but to wound him.

What _have_ I done ?" She could have wished, in her simple kindness, to follow him, and make peace; but he was now in a coterie of strangers; and shortly afterwards he left the room, and she did not see him again for weeks..