He could see her face at last.

“You—you are crying!” he exclaimed, in bewilderment.

“Because you are so unfeeling,” sobbed Babbie.

“What have I said, what have I done?” cried Gavin, in an agony of self-contempt. “Oh, that I had gone away at once!”

“That is cruel.”

“What is?”

172

“To say that.”

“What did I say?”

“That you wished you had gone away.”