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'I do not knohether to wait for your mother or not,' said he after a short pause

'Pray wait for her if you are not very busy'

'I came up only to see her, but perhaps she would not wish s Felix back to the house'

'Indeed she will She would like you always to be here when there are troubles Oh, Roger, I wish you could tell me'

'Tell you what?'

'She has written to you;--has she not?'

'Yes; she has written to me'

'And about ue has written to me also'

'He told me that he would,' whispered Hetta

'Did he tell you my answer?'

'No;--he has told me of no answer I have not seen him since'

'You do not think that it can have been very kind, do you? I also have soh I shall not attempt to show it after the sairl had promised to love that man?'

'I did not say so;--but she had proirl then was fickle and went back from her word You never have done that I aht of you I have never harboured a hard thought of you It is not you that I reproach But he,--he has been if possible er, how has he been false?'

Still he was not wishful to tell her the story of Mrs Hurtle The treachery of which he was speaking was that which he had thought had been committed by his friend towards himself 'He should have left the place and never have coer, 'when he found hoas likely to be with him He owed it to me not to take the cup of water from my lips'

Hoas she to tell him that the cup of water never could have touched his lips? And yet if this were the only falsehood of which he had to tell, she was bound to let him know that it was so That horrid story of Mrs Hurtle;--she would listen to that if she could hear it She would be all ears for that But she could not ader,' she said,--'it would have been the same'