you
were in a hurry to get rid of me?"

This most unfair accusation rouses the professor to extreme wrath. He
turns round and faces her like an enraged lion.

"You are a child," says he, in a tone sufficient to make any woman
resentful. "It is folly to argue with you."

"A child! What are you then?" cries she tremulously.

"A _fool_!" furiously. "I was given my cue, I would not take it. You
told me that it was bad enough to be your ward, that you would not on
any account be closer to me. _That_ should have been clear to me, yet,
like an idiot, I hoped against hope. I took false courage from each
smile of yours, each glance, each word. There! Once I leave you now, the
chain between us will be broken, we shall never, with _my_ will, meet
again. You say you have had suitors since you came down here. You hinted
to me that you could mention the name of him you wished to marry. So be
it. Mention it to Gwendoline--to any one you like, but not to me."

He strides towards the doorway. He has almost turned the corner.

"Thaddeus" cries a small, but frantic voice. If dying he would hear that
and turn. She is holding out her hands to him, the tears are running
down her lovely cheeks.

"It is to you--to _you_ I would tell his name," sobs she, as he returns
slowly, unwillingly, but _surely_, to her. "To you alone."

"To me! Go on," says Curzon; "let me hear it. What is the name of this
man you want to marry?"

"Thaddeus Curzon!" says she, covering her face with her hands, and,
indeed, it is only when she feels his arms round her, and his heart
beating against hers, that she so far recovers herself as to be able to
add, "And a _hideous_ name it is, too!"

But this last little firework does no harm. Curzon is too ecstatically
happy to take notice of her small impertinence.

THE END.

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