"I cannot help noticing that you avoid all reference to my
meeting with Mr. Hampton. Is this another sign of your impractical
mind?"
"I should say rather the opposite, for I had not even supposed it
concerned me."
"Indeed! That presents a vastly different view from the one given us
an hour since. The distinct impression was then conveyed to both our
minds that you were greatly distressed regarding the matter. Is it
possible you can have been acting again?"
"I? Certainly not!" and she made no attempt to hide her indignation.
"What can you mean?"
He hesitated an instant in his reply, feeling that possibly he was
treading upon thin ice. But her eyes commanded a direct answer, and he
yielded to them.
"We were informed that you experienced great anxiety for fear we might
quarrel,--so great, indeed, that you had confided your troubles to
another."
"To whom?"
"Miss Spencer. She came to us ostensibly in your name, and as a
peacemaker."
A moment she sat gazing directly at him, then she laughed softly.
"Why, how supremely ridiculous; I can hardly believe it true, only your
face tells me you certainly are not in play.
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