"You must be very watchful, too," she added.
"Why, what do you fear?"
"He means to get rid of you," she answered, her face crimson with blushes.
"To get rid of me!" I exclaimed.
"He said so to me. You will not expose my weakness, if I tell you all, Philip?" said she, the tears starting in her beautiful eyes; and really I felt like crying myself.
"Not a word, nor a hint," I protested.
"Mr. Waterford has been very attentive to me for a year; and I confess that I liked him. But my father said he was an unprincipled man."
"Your father was right."
"I fear he was. Mr. Waterford asked me, several weeks ago, to run away with him, and be married in some town on the other side of the lake. I was weak enough to listen to him, but not to accept his proposition. He repeated it to-day, and with some familiarity which frightened me, and made me scream. I never was so alarmed before in my life."
"What did he do?"