I ask it now.

Listen to me with all the indulgence you can vouchsafe, and let me at least profit by your counsel if you refuse to give me your aid." Rapidly, briefly, I went on to say how I had first seen Lilian, and how sudden, how strange to myself, had been the impression which that first sight of her had produced.
"You remarked the change that had come over me," said I; "you divined the cause before I divined it myself,--divined it as I sat there beside you, thinking that through you I might see, in the freedom of social intercourse, the face that was then haunting me.

You know what has since passed.

Miss Ashleigh is ill; her case is, I am convinced, wholly misunderstood.

All other feelings are merged in one sense of anxiety,--of alarm.