"Of course you misunderstood me entirely!--_entirely!_" she added with an emphasis which suited with her heightened colour and evidently ruffled feelings.
Young Barnes looked at her with embarrassment.

What a queer, hot-tempered girl! Yet there was something in her which attracted him.
She was graceful even in her impatience.

Her slender neck, and the dark head upon it, her little figure in the white muslin, her dainty arms and hands--these points in her delighted an honest eye, quite accustomed to appraise the charms of women.

But, by George! she took herself seriously, this little music-teacher.

The air of wilful command about her, the sharpness with which she had just rebuked him, amazed and challenged him.
"I am very sorry if I misunderstood you," he said, a little on his dignity; "but I thought you----" "You thought I sympathized with Mrs.Verrier?
So I do; though of course I am awfully sorry that such a dreadful thing happened.