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"When he was tired of staring, he said, 'I suppose I am speaking to——' and then he stopped. 'Mrs. Rodney,' replied I; and then he raised his hat, and bowed, and gave me his card. After that he mounted again, and rode away.",As he makes this last extraordinary remark he looks over his left shoulder, as though fearful of being overheard.,"But your uncle's death made it all right, didn't it?","'He will write again. And he is sure we shall all love her when we see her.' That is another sentence that goes without telling. They are always sure of that beforehand. They absolutely arrange our feelings for us! I hope he will be as certain of it this time six months, for all our sakes.",Rodney's heart throbs with passionate relief, yet shame covers him; for he himself, one day, had given her that heather, tied, as he remembers, with that selfsame grass; and she, poor child, had kept it ever since. She had treasured it, and laid it aside, apart from all other objects, among her most sacred possessions, as a thing beloved and full of tender memories; and his had been the hand to ruthlessly lay bare this hidden secret of her soul.,"I tell you I have not," says Geoffrey. "Nothing of the sort. You are wool-gathering.",Mona smiles too in return, though still heavy at heart.,"Perhaps Lady Rodney would not like it.","I don't see how it could take any one long," says Rodney.,"Yes, but we are all so different from the English. We have no pretty fair hair in Ireland, or at least very little of it.",The drawing-room is very much the same as the ordinary run of drawing-rooms, at which Mona feels distinct disappointment, until, glancing at Lady Lilias, she notices a shudder of disgust run through her frame.,"You will give me an explanation at once," says Geoffrey, slowly, addressing his cousin. "What brought you here?".