It was just as likely that he would urge Mark to make love to the heiress, now she was an heiress, as that he would have restrained him previously, as Mark said he had done.

When this was repeated to Mark, he became proudly reserved, or sullen, and said that Laurentia, at any rate, might have known him better.

He left the country, and went up to London to study law soon afterwards; and Sir Hubert and Lady Galindo thought they were well rid of him.

But Laurentia never ceased reproaching herself, and never did to her dying day, as I believe.

The words, "She might have known me better," told to her by some kind friend or other, rankled in her mind, and were never forgotten.
Her father and mother took her up to London the next year; but she did not care to visit--dreaded going out even for a drive, lest she should see Mark Gibson's reproachful eyes--pined and lost her health.