I don't want you to quarrel with any of them, or to be what you call unkind.

But you need not give special and pressing invitations to this young man to come and see you before he goes back to London, and then to come and see you directly you get to London.

You tell me that he had some kind of romantic idea of being in love with you;--of being in despair because you are not in love with him.

It's all great nonsense, no doubt, but it seems to me that under such circumstances you'd better--just leave him alone." Again Lily was silent.

These were her three last days, in which it was her intention to be especially happy, but above all things to make him especially happy.