You had been very kind to me on several occasions and I had been your"-- with a half smile--"your guest that day.

I should not have hurt your feelings.

Will you accept my apology ?" "Why, yes, of course, since you insist, Miss Colton." "Thank you." She was turning to go; and I could not let her go thus.

Although she had apologized for speaking her thought she had not retracted the thought itself.

I was seized with a desire for justification in her eyes.