"Of course you will."
"It seems now that my heart is wrapped in lead." As they were coming home she put her hand upon his arm, and asked him to promise her to withdraw that threat.
"Why should I withdraw it? Who cares for me?"
"We all care. My aunt cares. I care."
"The threat means nothing, Mary. People who make such threats don't carry them out. Of course I shall go on and endure it. The worst of all is, that the whole thing makes me so unmanly,—makes such a beast of me. But I'll try to get over it."
Mary Lowther thought that, upon the whole, he bore his misfortune very well.
CHAPTER XIV.
COUSINHOOD.
Mary Lowther and her cousin had taken their walk together on Monday evening, and on the next morning she received the following letter from Mrs. Fenwick. When it reached her she had as yet heard nothing of the Bullhampton tragedy.