But I am very sorry that it
occurred. I think you should have controlled yourself.'
'No!' she almost shouted.
'I think so.'
'No;--if you mean by controlling myself, holding my tongue. He is
the man I love,--whom I have promised to marry.'
'But, Mary,--do ladies generally embrace their lovers in public?'
'No;--nor should I. I never did such a thing in my life before. But
as he was there I had to show that I was not ashamed of him! Do
you think I should have done it if you all had not been there?'
Then again she burst into tears.
He did not know quite what to make of it. Mabel Grex had declared
that she had behaved like an angel. But yet, as he thought of what
he had seen, he shuddered with vexation. 'I was thinking of the
governor.'
'He shall be told everything.'
'That you met Tregear?'
'Certainly; and that I--kissed him. I will do nothing that I am
ashamed to tell everybody.'
'He will be very angry.'
'I cannot help it. He should not treat me as he is doing. Mr
Tregear is a gentleman. Why did he let him come? Why you bring
him? But it is of no use.
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