The outside is the finest by this light,--only I want to show Alice something by ourselves." "You're not afraid, I know, and if Miss Vavasor is not--" "Miss Vavasor,--who, I think, would have allowed you to call her by her other name on such an occasion as this,--is never afraid." "Glencora, how dare you say so ?" said Alice.

"I really think we had better go back." She felt herself to be very angry with her cousin.

She almost began to fear that she had mistaken her, and had thought better of her than she had deserved.

What she had now said struck Alice as being vulgar,--as being premeditated vulgarity, and her annoyance was excessive.

Of course Mr Palliser would think that she was a consenting party to the proposition made to him.
"Go back!" said Glencora.