21/45 'But I shall never tell any one else. It will be all the easier to be silent, as I have not the least idea what she meant.' 'She meant our engagement,' said Mr.Van Torp in a matter-of-fact tone. 'We had broken it off that afternoon. She meant that it was I who did it, and so it was. Perhaps she did not like to think that when she was dead people might call her heartless and say she had thrown me over; and no one would ever know the truth except me, unless I chose to tell--me and her father.' 'Then you were not to be married after all!' Margaret showed her surprise. |