If he had been cruel
in throwing Mr. Twentyman in her teeth, surely he ought to
apologize. "I did not mean to say anything to offend you."
"You have not offended me at all, Mr. Morton."
"If I did think that,--that----"
"It does not signify in the least. I only want Lady Ushant to
understand that if I could possibly go to her I would rather do
that than anything else in the world. Because Lady Ushant is kind
to me I needn't expect other people to be so." Reginald Morton was
of course the "other people."
Then he paused a moment. "I did so long," he said, "to walk round
the old place with you the other day before these people came
there, and I was so disappointed when you would not come with me."
"I was coming."
"But you went back with--that other man"
"Of course I did when you showed so plainly that you didn't want
him to join you. What was I to do? I couldn't send him away. Mr.
Twentyman is a very intimate friend of ours, and very kind to Dolly
and Kate."
"I wished so much to talk to you about the old days."
"And I wish to go for your aunt, Mr. Morton; but we can't all of us
have what we wish. Of course I saw that you were very angry, but I
couldn't help that. Perhaps it was wrong in Mr. Twentyman to offer
to walk with you."
"I didn't say so at all."
"You looked it at any rate, Mr.
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