This is a morbid state of feeling, and you must try to drive it off.

You said a little while ago that you wanted to see how the plantation was looking, and what flowers had come out in the garden.

Shall I take you there in the barouche to-morrow ?" She gladly assented, and a few affectionate words soon restored her confidence in his love.
When the carriage was brought to the entrance of the wood the next day, she went to meet it with a smiling face and a springing step.

As he was about to hand her in, he said abruptly, "You have forgotten your veil." Tulee was summoned to bring it.

As Rosa arranged it round her head, she remarked, "One would think you were ashamed of me, Gerald." The words were almost whispered, but the tone sounded more like a reproach than anything she had ever uttered.