'Stephen.' resumed Knight, 'now that ugg boots cheap sale matters are smooth between us, I think I must leave you. You won't mind my hurrying off to my quarters?'
     'You'll stay to some sort of supper surely? didn't you come to dinner!'
     'You must really excuse me this once.'
     'Then you'll drop in to breakfast to-morrow.'
     'I shall be rather pressed for time.'
     'An early breakfast, which shall interfere with nothing?'
     'I'll come,' said Knight, with as much readiness as it was possible to graft upon a huge stock of reluctance. 'Yes, uggs discount early; eight o'clock say, as we are under the same roof.'
     'Any time you like. Eight it shall be.'
     And Knight left him. To wear a mask, to dissemble his feelings as he had in their late miserable conversation, was such torture that he could support it no longer. It was the first time in Knight's life that he had ever been so entirely the player of a part. And the man he had discount uggs for women thus deceived was Stephen, who had docilely looked up to him from youth as a superior of unblemished integrity.
     He went to bed, and allowed the fever of his excitement to rage uncontrolled. Stephen--it was only he who was the rival--only Stephen! There was an anti-climax of absurdity which Knight, wretched and conscience-stricken as he was, could not help recognizing. Stephen was but a boy to him. Where the great grief lay was ugg boots on sale in perceiving that the very innocence of Elfride in reading her little fault as one so grave was what had fatally misled him. Had Elfride, with any degree of coolness, asserted that she had done no harm, the poisonous breath of the dead Mrs. Jethway would have been inoperative. Why did he not make his little docile girl tell more? If on that subject he had only exercised the imperativeness customary with discount uggs for women him on others, all might have been revealed. It smote his heart like a switch when he remembered how gently she had borne his scourging speeches, never answering him with a single reproach, only assuring him of her unbounded love.
     Knight blessed Elfride for her sweetness, and forgot her fault. He pictured with a vivid fancy those fair summer scenes with her. He again saw her as at their first meeting, timid at ugg boots discount outlet speaking, yet in her eagerness to be explanatory borne forward almost against her will. How she would wait for him in green places, without showing any of the ordinary womanly affectations of indifference! How proud she was to be seen walking with him, bearing legibly in her eyes the thought that he was the greatest genius in the world!