What did it mean?
CHAPTER X.
ON returning to the house, Magdalen felt her shoulder suddenly touched
from behind as she crossed the hall. She turned and confronted her
sister. Before she could ask any questions, Norah confusedly addressed
her, in these words: "I beg your pardon; I beg you to forgive me."
Magdalen looked at her sister in astonishment. All memory, on her side,
of the sharp words which had passed between them in the shrubbery was
lost in the new interests that now absorbed her; lost as completely
as if the angry interview had never taken place. "Forgive you!" she
repeated, amazedly. "What for?"
"I have heard of your new prospects," pursued Norah, speaking with a
mechanical submissiveness of manner which seemed almost ungracious; "I
wished to set things right between us; I wished to say I was sorry for
what happened. Will you forget it? Will you forget and forgive what
happened in the shrubbery?" She tried to proceed; but her
inveterate reserve--or, perhaps, her obstinate reliance on her own
opinions--silenced her at those last words. Her face clouded over on a
sudden. Before her sister could answer her, she turned away abruptly and
ran upstairs.
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