I had no right, of course, to assume that you would be here.
I suppose it was impertinent--was that it ?" "I will not quarrel," she answered, soothingly--"if that is what you want." Her voice was oddly placid.

It almost seemed to suggest that she had come to-night for a certain purpose; that one subject of conversation alone would interest her, and that to all others she must turn a deaf ear.
He came a little nearer, and, leaning against the turf wall, looked down at her.

He was suddenly grave now.

The roles were again reversed; for it was the woman who was tenacious to one purpose and the man who seemed inconsequent, flitting from grave to gay, from one thought to another.
His apology had been made graciously enough, but with a queer pride, quite devoid of the sullenness which marks the pride of the humbly situated.
"No; I do not want that," he answered.

"I want a little sympathy, that is all; because I have been educated above my station.