How much was confessed in the tone of those words! — and she hid her face again. But her companion made no remark.
"Is there no friend you would like to have sent for?"
"No," said Elizabeth, — "not one! not one here — and not anywhere, that I should care to have with me."
"May I go up and see Mr. Haye now?" he said presently. "Which is the room?"
Elizabeth rose up to shew him.
"No," he said, gently motioning her back, — "I am going alone.
You must stay here."
"But I must go too, Mr. Landholm! —"
"Not if I go," he said.
"But I am his daughter, — I must."
"I am not his daughter — so as far as that goes we are even.
And by your own confession you know nothing of the matter; and
I do. No — you must not go above this floor."