"I know what Mrs. Brigstock herself told me." "I wasn't sure, but I thought it right to try—to put it to her kindly, don't you see? If she won't see me, then she has herself to thank. The only other way would have been to set the lawyers at her."!

"That's your great feeling about him," Fleda said; "but how, after what has happened, can it be his about you?" "It didn't," Owen replied with candor. "She said our relation, yours and mine, isn't innocent."

"Ah, then he did put his case to you!" Mrs. Gereth exclaimed, with an accent of triumph. "You seemed to speak just now as if really nothing of any consequence had passed between you." "Very true, you've done it all yourself." Fleda spoke gravely and gently, without a breath of coquetry. "But those are shades between which she's probably not obliged to distinguish. It's enough for her that we're singularly intimate." "Oh, I came back from Ricks last week. I shall be here now till I don't know when."