CHAPTER VI "Did he seem very angry?"!

"Marry him if he were to ask me? Most distinctly not!" "What has made the difference?"

"The shilling's my shilling," said Mrs. Gereth. This was a transaction that Fleda, after a moment, had to give up trying to represent to herself. "If she won't do that—?" she went on. There was an oddity in his helplessness; he appeared to wish to persuade her and to satisfy himself that she sincerely felt how worthy he really was to treat what had happened as an injury. She could only exclaim, almost as helplessly as himself: "Of course you did justice! It's all most painful. I shall instantly let your mother know," she again declared, "the way I've spoken of her to you." She clung to that idea as to the sign of her straightness.