Things were far worse than I had imagined.

I began to lose hope from the moment I heard Miss Darrell had been mixed up in the affair; the thought sickened me.

I could hardly bear to hear Max speak; and yet how was I to help him unless he made me acquainted with the real state of the case?
'I suppose I had better tell you all from the beginning,' he said, rather dejectedly; 'that is, as far as I know myself, for I can hardly tell you when I began to love Gladys.

I call her Gladys to myself,' with a faint smile, 'and it comes naturally to me.

I ought to have said Miss Hamilton.' 'But not to me, Max,' I returned eagerly.
'What does it matter what I call her?
She will never take the only name I want to give her!' was the melancholy reply to this.