"Oh! have you?"
Maurice walked on by her side; after a few moments Mattie said to him,
"What do you want with Sidney?"
"Many things. I am anxious to see him—very anxious."
"Your presence can but give him pain—why expose him to needless suffering by this intrusion?"
"I have a hope that it will not be considered an intrusion, Miss Gray," said Maurice, stiffly.
"I can see no reason why you should hope that."
"I am his relation—his——"
"Sir, I know what you are," said Mattie, sharply; "I know all your history, and all the harm you have done to him, and Harriet Wesden, and me."
"And you!—and you, Miss!" he repeated harshly.