Somebody had been telling him about Henry's attentions to her.

A bitter anger, a feeling of which a moment before she would have deemed herself utterly incapable, surged up in her heart against the person, whoever it was, who had told him this.

For several seconds she could not control herself to speak.

Finally, she said-- "I don't understand you.

Why do you speak of Mr.Burr to me ?" "I beg pardon.