I object to your confiding in him secrets that you never told to me.
You said nothing to me of Margaret's love affairs, although she is my cousin." "You forget, Maurice.

I spoke to you several times, but you never seemed to care.

And I should not have told Tom, only he called her an old maid, and that _hurt_ me, and I wanted to show him how it was.

I love Margaret, and I--I am fond of Tom, and----" The hesitation, though unmeant, is fatal.

Rylton turns upon her furiously.
"It is of no consequence to me whom you love or whom you--_care_ for," says he, imitating her hesitation, with a sneer.