'
'Call me Mabel. At any rate call me Mabel. If I have said anything
to offend you--I beg your pardon.'
'I am not offended--but unhappy.'
'If you are unhappy, what must I be? What have I to look forward
to? Give me your hand, and say that we are friends.'
'Certainly we are friends,' he said, and gave her his hand.
'Who can tell what may come to pass?' To this he would make no
answer, as it seemed to imply that some division between himself
and Isabel Boncassen might possibly come to pass. 'You will not
tell anyone that I love you.'
'I tell such a thing as that!'
'But never forget it yourself. No one can tell what may come to
pass.'
Lady Mabel at once went up to her room. She had played her scene,
but was well aware that she had played it altogether
unsuccessfully.
CHAPTER 60
Lord Gerald in Further Trouble
When Silverbridge got back to the house he was by no means well
pleased with himself. In the first place he was unhappy to think
that Mabel was unhappy, and that he had made he so. And then she
had told him that he would not have dared to have acted as he had
done, but that her father and brother were careless to defend her.
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