It was all so simple, but he took it so awkwardly, and was so long thanking me, that I felt awkward too.

And then that portrait of me he did so well.

And most of all that look of confusion and tenderness! Yes, yes, that's it!" Kitty repeated to herself with horror.

" No, it can't be, it oughtn't to be! He's so much to be pitied!" she said to herself directly after.

This doubt poisoned the charm of her new life.