You tell me that I owe it to you to make this
acknowledgement,--and I make it. The subject is, as you may
imagine, so painful that I will spare myself if possible, any
further allusion to it. I believe I did you a wrong, and therefore
I ask your pardon.
'I should perhaps apologise also for delay in my reply. I have had
much to think of in this matter, and have many others also on my
mind.
'Believe me to be,
Yours faithfully,
OMNIUM.'
It was very short, and as being short was infinitely less
troublesome at the moment than a fuller epistle; but he was very
angry with himself, knowing that it was too short, feeling that it
was ungracious. He should have expressed a hope that he might soon
see her again,--only he had no such wish. There had been times at
which he had liked her, but he knew that he did not like her now.
And yet he was bound to be her friend! If he could only do some
great thing for her, and thus satisfy his feeling of indebtedness
towards her! But all the favours had been from her to him and
his.
CHAPTER 23
Frank Tregear Wants a Friend
Six or seven weeks had passed since Tregear had made his
communication to the Duke, and during that time he had heard not a
word about the girl he loved.
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