It jarred upon his feelings, and confirmed him in the belief that their long separation had broken up their old relations completely, and that she, in the new career which her beauty opened before her, wished for no embarrassing relations of any kind.
"Well," he said, with an answering laugh, "I suppose I must take you for what you are and propose to be--that is, if I ever find out." In a few moments more, after some light badinage, he left her with Mr.and Mrs.Muir on the piazza, and went to claim his waltz with Miss Wildmere..