"Do not do me another injustice.

You will see me again before you go ?" He assented and bade good-night.

Mrs.Lee, weary and disturbed in mind, hastened to her room.

"When Miss Sybil comes in, tell her that I am not very well, and have gone to bed," were her instructions to her maid, and Sybil thought she knew the cause of this headache.
But before Carrington's departure he had one more ride with Sybil, and reported to her the result of the interview, at which both of them confessed themselves much depressed.

Carrington expressed some hope that Madeleine meant, after a sort, to give a kind of pledge by saying that she had no intention of marrying Mr.Ratcliffe, but Sybil shook her head emphatically: "How can a woman tell whether she is going to accept a man until she is asked ?" said she with entire confidence, as though she were stating the simplest fact in the world.