My reason for concealment disappears now," he blurted out, for the young man was both vexed and ashamed.

"That wretched night, after she returned home, Helen thought she had behaved foolishly in creating a scene.

She put on a cloak, changed her shoes, and slipped back again to Mrs.Eastham's, where she met Alan just coming away.

She implored him to make up the quarrel with me.

He apologised for his conduct, and promised to do the same to me when we met.