'I told Susan to send you away, because I could not bear any more talk.

You made me so unhappy yesterday, Miss Garston.' I was cruel enough to tell her that I was glad to hear it, and I must have looked as though I meant it.
'Oh, don't,' she said, shrinking as though I had dealt her a blow.

'I want you to unsay those words: they pierce me like thorns.

Please tell me you did not mean them.' 'How can I know to what you are alluding ?' I replied, in rather an unsympathetic tone; but I did not intend to be soft with her to-day: she had treated me badly and must repent her ingratitude.

'I certainly meant every word I said yesterday,' To my great surprise, she burst into tears, and repeated word for word a fragment of a sentence that I had said.
'It haunts me, Miss Garston, and frightens me somehow.