You are unmarried, and have a right to run the risk." "I am so glad to hear you speak like that," said he.

He had now managed to take up that friendly, confidential, almost affectionate tone of talking which he had so often used when abroad with her, and which he had failed to assume when first entering the room.
"I have always thought so." "But you have never said it." "Haven't I?
I thought I had." "Not heartily like that.

I know that people abuse me;--my own people, my grandfather, and probably your father,--saying that I am reckless and the rest of it.

I do risk everything for my object; but I do not know that any one can blame me,--unless it be Kate.

To whom else do I owe anything ?" "Kate does not blame you." "No; she sympathizes with me; she, and she only, unless it be you." Then he paused for an answer, but she made him none.