'You have accepted my mother's invitation,' she said; 'and you are here to meet her guests.

Unless you wish to make a scandal in the house, you will remain, of course!' She went on a few steps, and then seemed to relent a little.

'Let us forget what has passed, Godfrey,' she said, 'and let us remain cousins still.' She gave him her hand.

He kissed it, which I should have considered taking a liberty, and then she left him.
He waited a little by himself, with his head down, and his heel grinding a hole slowly in the gravel walk; you never saw a man look more put out in your life.

'Awkward!' he said between his teeth, when he looked up, and went on to the house--'very awkward!' If that was his opinion of himself, he was quite right.