I meant no harm, although I see I have vexed you.

Forgive me, pray; I did not mean to be either ungenerous or ungrateful.

Is it thought so very wrong at Gethin--even with such great temptation--" "Yes, Sir, it is," she broke in, vehemently; "and I was wrong to come with you." "Nay, don't say that," pleaded the young fellow.

"How could you be wrong to do so great a kindness to a stranger as you have done to me?
It was my sense of it--my heartfelt sense, believe me, of the trouble and toil you have undergone for my sake; and I don't deny, Harry, your beauty too, of which I have never seen the like.

But there, I am offending you again.