Are you doctor enough, Godfrey, to tell me why I feel as if I was stifling for want of breath?
Is there a form of hysterics that bursts into words instead of tears?
I dare say! What does it matter?
You will get over any trouble I have caused you, easily enough now.

I have dropped to my right place in your estimation, haven't I?
Don't notice me! Don't pity me! For God's sake, go away!" She turned round on a sudden, and beat her hands wildly on the back of the ottoman.

Her head dropped on the cushions; and she burst out crying.
Before I had time to feel shocked, at this, I was horror-struck by an entirely unexpected proceeding on the part of Mr.Godfrey.Will it be credited that he fell on his knees at her feet ?--on BOTH knees, I solemnly declare! May modesty mention that he put his arms round her next?
And may reluctant admiration acknowledge that he electrified her with two words?
"Noble creature!" No more than that! But he did it with one of the bursts which have made his fame as a public speaker.

She sat, either quite thunderstruck, or quite fascinated--I don't know which--without even making an effort to put his arms back where his arms ought to have been.

As for me, my sense of propriety was completely bewildered.