"I have certainly done nothing to make you so much my friend.

If you were to tell me you intended to leave us to-morrow, I am afraid that I should not venture to ask you to stay.

But whether you go or stay, let us not talk of Roderick!" "But that," said Rowland, "does n't answer my question.

Is he better ?" "No!" she said, and turned away.
He was careful not to tell her that he intended to leave them.

One day, shortly after this, as the two young men sat at the inn-door watching the sunset, which on that evening was very striking and lurid, Rowland made an attempt to sound his companion's present sentiment touching Christina Light.