If so, I should like to congratulate you." Tommy winced like one charged with open cruelty to his sister--charged with it, too, by the real criminal.
"It is not true ?" David asked quietly, and Tommy turned from him glaring.

"I am sorry I spoke of it, as it is not true," the doctor said after a pause, the crow's-feet showing round his eyes as always when he was in mental pain; and presently he went away, after giving Tommy a contemptuous look.

Did Tommy deserve that look?
We must remember that he had wanted to make the engagement public at once; if he shrank from admitting it for the present, it was because of Elspeth's plight.

"Grizel, you might have given her a little time to recover from this man's faithlessness," was what his heart cried.

He believed that Grizel had told David, and for the last time in his life he was angry with her.