“Really, sir, I do not understand you.”
“Well, I will explain. Nothing short of rejection will possibly cure you of this malady; and it is of the last importance to your future career, that you should be freed as soon as possible from this sickly condition of thought and feeling—a condition in which your mind will do nothing, and in which your best days will be wasted. Blackstone can only hope to be taken up when you have done with her.”
“Stay, sir—that is she below.”
“Who?”
“Margaret——”
“Who is with her?”
“The stranger—this man, Stevens.”
“Ha! your counsellor, that would be? Ah! William, you did not tell me all.”