"What do you mean?"
He made no answer, and strode forward to pass her, and continue his course to Lydford.
"Anthony!" exclaimed Julian, "you shall not meet and leave me thus. I have not seen you since your return."
"I cannot stay now."
"But you shall!" She threw herself in his road, holding the reins of her horse with one hand, and extending her whip in the other. "Anthony! what is the meaning of this?"
"I must pass," said he, stepping aside to circumvent her.
"Anthony!" she cried—there was pain and despair in her tone—"where are you going? and why will you not speak to me?"
He stood still for a moment, and looked steadily at her; then she saw how pale he was.
"Julian," said he, quietly, "you have acted towards me in a heartless——"
"Heartless, Tony!"