I cannot help it.

So that it would be wrong for me to join you." Fitzpiers was now uneasy.

"You say your betrothed lover still," he rejoined.

"When, then, were you betrothed to him, or engaged, as we common people say ?" "When you were away." "How could that be ?" Grace would have avoided this; but her natural candor led her on.

"It was when I was under the impression that my marriage with you was about to be annulled, and that he could then marry me.