The manner in which he had first addressed her made it impossible for her to tell him that she was not engaged to marry Adrian Urmand,--that she was determined, if possible, to avoid the marriage, and that she had no love for Adrian Urmand.

Had she done so, she would in so doing have asked him to come back to her.

That she should do this was impossible.

And yet as he left her, some suspicion of the truth, some half-formed idea of the real state of the man's mind in reference to her, flashed across her own.

She seemed to feel that she was specially unfortunate, but she felt at the same time that there was no means within her reach of setting things right.