I love my very self--ridiculous as _you_ may think it--for being Miss Boyce of Mellor!" "Don't say things like that, please!" he interrupted; "I think I have not deserved them." His tone made her repent her gibe.

"No, indeed, you have been most kind to me," she cried.

"I don't know how it is.

I am bitter and personal in a moment--when I don't mean to be.

Yes! you are quite right.