"Interfered!"
"Yes, interfered—in what I then thought and still think to have been a very unwarrantable manner."
"It was a pity you did not tell me of it at the time."
"It is a pity rather that you should drive me to tell you of it now; but you do so. When I was in Paris, you said to Miss Waddington what you had no right to say."
"What did I say?"
"Or, rather, she said to you—"
"Ah! that was no fault of mine."
"But it was a fault of yours. Do you think that I cannot understand? that I cannot see? She would have been silent enough to you but for your encouragement. I do not know that I was ever so vexed as when I received that letter from you. You took upon yourself—"
"I know you were angry, very angry. But that was not my fault. I said nothing but what a friend under such circumstances was bound to say."
"Well, let the matter drop now; and let Miss Waddington and myself settle our own affairs."