"I pity her all the more on that account."
"I am not so charitable."
"At all events, she is gay and happy now," pursued Sybil.
"Yes; she can be pleasant to all the world except me," cried Laurence, bitterly.
"I will not permit you to be unjust," returned Miss Chase.
"You can not deny that she is heartless and capricious; you admitted as much the other day."
"Did I? Then it was very wrong in me."
"Ah, you have no sympathy with my misery."
"Do not reproach me in this way; you know it is unjust."
"But did you not own you considered her cold and hard?"