"And I have other ties," Maggie went on, at last,with a desperate effort, "even if Lucy did not exist."
"You are engaged to philip Wakem?" said Stephen,hastily. "Is it so?"
"I consider myself engaged to him; I don't mean to marry any one else."
Stephen was silent again until they had turned out of the sun into a side lane, all grassy and sheltered. Then he burst out impetuously,–