Eh?
You needn't pretend, for my sake, to misunderstand me." "I wasn't going to," said Sarah, gently.
"John Crewys is the very man I would have chosen--I did choose him," said the doctor, looking at her almost fiercely.

It was an odd consolation to him to believe he had first led John Crewys to interest himself in Lady Mary.

He recognized his rival's superior qualifications very fully and humbly.

"You know all about it, Miss Sarah, don't tell me; so quick as you are to find out what doesn't concern you." "I saw that--Mr.John Crewys--liked _her_," said Sarah, in a low voice; "but, then, so does everybody.

I wasn't sure--I couldn't believe that _she_--" "You haven't watched as I have," he groaned; "you haven't seen the sparkle come back to her eye, and the colour to her cheek.