I must do something." She threw herself on the couch with a groan.
"It's horrid!" she cried, and buried her face in the pillow.
All this time Letty had been so bewildered by Mary's agitation, and the cause of it was to her so vague, that apprehension for her cousin did not wake.

But when Mary was silent, then came the thought that, if she had not so repulsed him--but she could not help it, and would not think in that direction.
Mary started from the couch, and began again to pace the room, wringing her hands, and walking up and down like a wild beast in its cage.

It was so unlike her to be thus seriously discomposed, that Letty began to be frightened.

She sat silent and looked at her.

Then spoke the spirit of truth in the scholar, for the teacher was too troubled to hear.