“Hartley!”
“Yes, Hartley!”
“And North has told you?”
“Nothing!”
He half dragged her down, and kept his grasp upon her shoulder till she was inside the drawing-room and he had closed the window.
“You can go up to your bedroom by the stairs,” he said sternly, “without stealing in like a thief. Had some one told me of this to my face I should have said he lied.”
“There, say what you have to say, and end this scene,” cried Leo, defiantly now.
“I have nothing to say—now,” said Salis sternly.
“Oh, say it! I am not a child.”
“I am under a promise to Mary that I will say nothing now.”