ABSTRACT
The manner in which Mr. Haversham spoke at parting, and, indeed, his deportment through the whole of the interview which I had sought, was not what I was prepared to expect it would be. Indignant reproof I anticipated, and I had calculated that his astonishment would be as great as his anger. Neither the one, nor the other, had been manifested in any thing like the degree which the occasion, as it appeared to me, would have justified, and his extreme anxiety that I should delay my intended departure, and be with him by eight o’clock that evening, for a purpose which had not been stated, was, to me, as perfectly inexplicable as any part of his conduct had ever been.
