"I have come all the way from Cambridge to see you.

I could not bear suspense any longer.

I grew so impatient for certainty of some kind, that I went up to town last night, in order to feel myself on my way to you, even though I knew I could not be here a bit earlier to-day for doing so.

Maggie--dear Maggie! how you are trembling! Have I frightened you?
Nancy told me you were here; but it was very thoughtless to come so suddenly upon you." It was not the suddenness of his coming; it was the suddenness of her own heart, which leaped up with the feelings called out by his words.

She went very white, and sat down on the ground as before.