But on this the first occasion, the alteration in her bewildered him.
"I am glad to find your uncle better," he said.
"Yes .-- You have seen him, then ?" "Yes.

I was very busy in the dissecting-room, till--" He stopped; for he saw her shudder.
"I beg your pardon," he hastened to substitute.--"We are so used to those things, that--" "Don't say a word more about it, please," she said hastily.

Then, in a vague kind of way--"Won't you sit down ?" "No, thank you.

I must go home," answered Alec, feeling that she did not want him.

"Good night," he added, advancing a step.
"Good night, Mr Forbes," she returned in the same vague manner, and without extending her hand.
Alec checked himself, bowed, and went with a feeling of mortification, and the resolution not to repeat his visit too soon.
She interfered with his studies notwithstanding, and sent him wandering in the streets, when he ought to have been reading at home.