"I shall be very happy to come," said he.
"Not unless you can make it perfectly convenient," Lucina replied, with cold sweetness; "I would rather not urge you." "It will be perfectly convenient," said Jerome.

"I thought at first I ought not to go, that was all." "Of course, Aunt Camilla and I will be very happy to have you come, if you can," said Lucina.

Still, she was not appeased.

Jerome's hesitating acceptance of this last invitation had hurt her more than all that had gone before.

She began to wish, with a great pang of shame, that she had not gone to his house that night, had not tried to see him, had not proposed this miserable party.