'Come in. Of course you know I am glad to see you,' he said hurriedly; and Gladys could not help rather enjoying his evident confusion. If he felt nervous and awkward in her presence, it was no more than he deserved to feel, since she was so entirely unchanged.
'I am glad you have the grace to be civil, at least,' she said, with a bewildering smile, which vanished, however, when she seated herself on the battered old office-stool; all her anxiety and troubled concern made her face grave to sadness as she put the question—
'Do you know that your sister is in Glasgow?'
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A TROUBLED HEART.
alter did not know. His expression of surprise, tinged with alarm and a touch of shame, answered her before he spoke.
'How do you know that?' he asked.