But this very act of cheerful acquiescence was made the ground of a charge that shocked my being to the inmost and changed me towards you irrevocably." The stern angry aspect of Mr.Dexter was all gone.

It seemed as if emotion had suddenly exhausted itself.
"We had better go home to-morrow." He spoke in a subdued voice.
"Neither of us can find enjoyment here." "I shall not be ready to morrow, nor the next day either," was the out-spoken reply.

"To go thus hurriedly, after your humiliating exhibition of distrust, would only be to give free rein to the tongue of scandal; and that I wish to avoid." "It has free rein already," said Mr.Dexter.

"At Saratoga I heard your name lightly spoken and brought you away for that very reason.
You are not chary enough of yourself in these public places.

I know men better than you do." "If a light word was spoken of me, sir, at Saratoga or anywhere else, you alone are to blame.