He came to meet her reluctant advance.'Thank you!' said she.'You are very kind.I am very much obliged to you.' 'Then you must do something for me,' said he, determined not to notice the restraint of her manner, and making the rearrangement of the flowers which she held a sort of link between them, so that she could not follow her impulse, and leave the room.- 'Tell me, - honestly as I know you will if you speak at all, - have not I done something to vex you since we were so happy at the Towers together?' His voice was so kind and true, - his manner so winning yet wistful, that Molly would have been thankful to tell him all; she believed that he could have helped her more than any one to understand how she ought to behave rightly; he would have disentangled her fancies, - if only he himself had not lain at the very core and centre of all her perplexity and dismay.
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