I have never thought of it from that hour to this.

I paid no more attention to it than though she had said you cared for my maid Therese.

You _cannot_ care for Sibylla West!" Lionel had high notions of duty as well as of honour, and he would not equivocate to his mother.

"I do care very much for Sibylla West," he said in a low tone; "and, please God, I hope she will sometime be my wife.

But, mother, this confidence is entirely between ourselves.