"But I will be to-morrow. Will you be afraid to come out with me before breakfast?"
"Oh no! she would not be at all afraid," she said: and so the appointment was made.
"I know you'll think me very foolish for giving this trouble," she began, in rather a confused way, "and making so much about nothing."
"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself," said Bertram, laughing.
"Well, but I know it is foolish. But I was unjust to you yesterday, and I could not leave you without confessing it."
"How unjust, Adela?"
"I said you had cast Caroline off."
"Ah, no! I certainly did not do that."
"She wrote to me, and told me everything. She wrote very truly, I know; and she did not say a word—not a word against you."
"Did she not? Well—no—I know she would not. And remember this, Adela: I do not say a word against her. Do tell her, not from me, you know, but of your own observation, that I do not say one word against her. I only say she did not love me."