"You have wasted your curiosity, my dear, on a subject totally unworthy of a lady's notice." Blanche's penetration was not to be deceived on such easy terms as these.

"Why not say at once that you won't tell me ?" she rejoined.
"_You_ shutting yourself up with Mr.Delamayn to talk law! _You_ looking absent and anxious about it afterward! I am a very unhappy girl!" said Blanche, with a little, bitter sigh.

"There is something in me that seems to repel the people I love.

Not a word in confidence can I get from Anne.

And not a word in confidence can I get from you.