It explained what seemed to me at the time to be strange; how it was that you, who are generally so cordial in your manner, were so cold to him when you first met him at our house.

I thought that there might be something more serious--" and she looked him full in the face.
"Perhaps I am a prejudiced beggar," he said, with an attempt to smile, and then added somewhat bitterly; "You see things since have not been calculated to make me specially generous in his case." She did not reply, and after a moment's pause he said, "Well, as Lady Greendale seems to be busy, I will be going." "You will come to the ball tomorrow evening, won't you ?" she asked.
"I suppose I shall have to," he said.

"If I win, though mind I feel sure that I shan't, it will seem odd if I don't come.

If I lose, it will look as if I sulked." "You must come," she said, "and you must have a dance with me.

You have not been keeping your word, Major Mallett.