"I cannot help noticing that you avoid all reference to my meeting with Mr.Hampton.

Is this another sign of your impractical mind ?" "I should say rather the opposite, for I had not even supposed it concerned me." "Indeed! That presents a vastly different view from the one given us an hour since.

The distinct impression was then conveyed to both our minds that you were greatly distressed regarding the matter.

Is it possible you can have been acting again ?" "I?
Certainly not!" and she made no attempt to hide her indignation.
"What can you mean ?" He hesitated an instant in his reply, feeling that possibly he was treading upon thin ice.

But her eyes commanded a direct answer, and he yielded to them.
"We were informed that you experienced great anxiety for fear we might quarrel,--so great, indeed, that you had confided your troubles to another." "To whom ?" "Miss Spencer.