"I see I've made you very unhappy."
"Of course you have."
"And you think that I'm ungrateful. I'm not ungrateful, and I don't think that Hugh is."
"Never mind Hugh."
"Only because it seems so hard that you should take so much trouble about us, and that then there should be so much vexation."
"I find it very hard."
"So I think that I'd better go back to Nuncombe."
"That's what you call gratitude."
"I don't like to stay here and make you unhappy. I can't think that I ought to have done what you asked me, because I did not feel at all in that way about Mr. Gibson. But as I have only disappointed you, it will be better that I should go home. I have been very happy here,—very."
"Bother!" exclaimed Miss Stanbury.