'You have behaved very badly,' said the brother.
'She has behaved like an angel,' said Mabel, throwing her arms
round Mary, as she spoke, 'like an angel. If there had been a girl
whom you loved and who loved you, would you have not wished it?
Would you not have worshipped her for showing that she was not
ashamed of her love?'
'I am not a bit ashamed,' said Mary.
'And I say you have no cause. No one knows him like I do. How good
he is, and how worthy!' Immediately after that Silverbridge took
his sister away, and Lady Mabel, escaping from Miss Cass was
alone. 'She loves him almost as I have loved him,' she said to
herself. 'I wonder whether he can love her as he did me?'
CHAPTER 30
What Came of the Meeting
Not a word was said in the cab as Lord Silverbridge took his
sister to Carlton Terrace, and he leaving her without any
reference to the scene which had taken place, when an idea struck
him that this would be cruel. 'Mary,' he said, 'I was very sorry
for all that.'
'It was not my doing.'
'I suppose it was nobody's doing.
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