Evelyn gave a little click of impatience.
“Think it over!” he said. “What else do you suppose I should be thinking about, or what else have I thought about for days?”
Merivale shook his head.
“Try to get outside yourself, I mean, and look at what you have done from any other standpoint than your own. You say you couldn’t help telling her. Well, there are certain things one has got to help, else——”
He stopped; it was no use talking. But Evelyn wanted to hear.
“Else?” he suggested.
“Else you had better not mix with other people at all,” said Merivale. “You have better reason for turning hermit than I. You have told a girl who is engaged to your friend that you love her. Think over that!”
