Of course, dear, you will understand that so long as you were to marry a man who would be likely to make you happy I was content, but I could not bear to think of your marrying a man I knew to be altogether unworthy of you." "You know very well," she said, "that you never intended to let me marry him.

As I said to you last night, I feel very much aggrieved, Major Mallett.

You had said you would be my friend, and yet you let this go on when you could have stopped it at once.

You let me get talked about with that man, and you would have gone on letting me get still more talked about before you interfered.

That was not kind or friendly of you." "But, Bertha," he remonstrated, "the fact that we had not been friends, and that he had beaten me in a variety of matters, was no reason in the world why I should interfere, still less why you should not marry him.