'Miss Bonner thanks you.

Do you think I wish you to stay?
No friend of yours would wish it.

You do not know the selfishness--brutal!--of these people of birth, as they call it.' 'I have met with nothing but kindness here,' said Evan.
'Then go while you can feel that,' she answered; 'for it cannot last another hour.

Here is the rose.' She broke it from the stem and handed it to him.

'You may wear that, and they are not so likely to call you an adventurer, and names of that sort.