If you will go East with me next week, well and good.

If you won't give up Smith Westcott, then I shall leave you now forever." Katy couldn't bear to be the cause of any disaster to anybody; and just at this moment Smith was out of sight, and Albert, white and trembling with the reaction of his passion, stood before her.

She felt, somehow, that she had brought all this trouble on Albert, and in her pity for him, and remorse for her own course, she wept and clung to her brother, and begged him not to leave her.

And Albert said: "There, don't cry any more.
It's all right now.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.