Like lightning he had grasped her arm. "You mean you will talk of them?" Then as he began to take the flood of assent from her eyes: "You will listen to me? Oh, you dear, you dear—when, when?" He appeared puzzled by this statement, but he presently rejoined: "You haven't then said to mamma what you think?"!

"And you don't really think it's fair, do you? You don't!" He spoke very quickly; he really seemed to plead. CHAPTER IX

"She knows how awfully kind you've been to me," Owen said. He showed such discomfiture that he really gave away their situation; and Fleda found herself divided between the hope that he would take leave and the wish that he should see the whole of what the occasion might enable her to bring to pass for him. "Well, if that will make it succeed!" Mrs. Gereth took back her shilling, but she still kept the telegram. "As he's most probably not there—" "Then you think he lies when he tells you that he has recovered his liberty?"