She had been vexed and distressed, though she had sent back word by his messenger that he might come when he would.

She had not been better pleased when she saw him; his being there at all was so full of heavy implications.

It implied things she could never assent to--rights, reproaches, remonstrance, rebuke, the expectation of making her change her purpose.

These things, however, if implied, had not been expressed; and now our young lady, strangely enough, began to resent her visitor's remarkable self-control.

There was a dumb misery about him that irritated her; there was a manly staying of his hand that made her heart beat faster.