The Outcry

IX-1

IX

Lord Theign, when he had gone, revolved—it might have been nervously— about the place a little, but soon broke ground. "He'll have told you, I understand, that I've promised to speak to you for him. But I understand also

that he has found something to say for himself."

"Yes, we talked—a while since," the girl said. "At least he did." "Then if you listened I hope you listened with a good grace." "Oh, he speaks very well—and I've never disliked him."

It pulled her father up. "Is that all—when I think so much of him?"

She seemed to say that she had, to her own mind, been liberal and gone far; but she waited a little. "Do you think very, very much?"

"Surely I've made my good opinion clear to you!"

Again she had a pause. "Oh yes, I've seen you like him and believe in him— and I've fou