You know she won't turn you out of the house." "No," said Falkner, reddening; "but I should expect to go at once, and that would be my only excuse for telling her." "Go! where?
In your preoccupation with that girl you haven't even found the trail by which Manuel escaped.

Do you intend to camp outside the house, and make eyes at her when she comes to the window ?" "Because you think nothing of flirting with Mrs.Hale," said Falkner bitterly, "you care little--" "My dear Ned," said Lee, "the fact that Mrs.Hale has a husband, and knows that she can't marry me, puts us on equal terms.

Nothing that she could learn about me hereafter would make a flirtation with me any less wrong than it would be now, or make her seem more a victim.

Can you say the same of yourself and that Puritan girl ?" "But you did not advise me to keep aloof from her; on the contrary, you--" "I thought you might make the best of the situation, and pay her some attention, BECAUSE you could not go any further." "You thought I was utterly heartless and selfish, like--" "Ned!" Falkner walked rapidly to the fireplace, and returned.
"Forgive me, George--I'm a fool--and an ungrateful one." Lee did not reply at once, although he took and retained the hand Falkner had impulsively extended.

"Promise me," he said slowly, after a pause, "that you will say nothing yet to either of these women.