"It is Colonel Neilson who might do something." "Neilson ?" "Yes, Colonel Neilson." "Are you mad ?" says Sir Maurice, in a low tone, "to think you can thus deceive me over and over again ?" He draws back from her.

Disgust is in his heart.

Does she dream that she can pass off Neilson as her lover, instead of Hescott?
He draws a sharp breath.

How she must love Hescott, to seek thus to shield him, when ruin is waiting for herself! "I am not mad," says Tita, throwing up her head.

"And as to deceiving you--Of course I can see that you are very angry with me for betraying Margaret's secret to Tom; but, then, Tom is a great friend, and when he said something about Margaret's being an old maid, I couldn't bear it any longer.