"Oh, you shouldn't do this! Really! I--I said I might come, but that was far from doing it.

And to have you come here and take advantage of me in this way! I think you're horrid.

If I ever had any interest in you, it is quite dead now, I can assure you.

Unless you let me go at once, I give you my word I will never see you any more.

I won't! Really, I won't! I mean it! Oh, please let me go! I'll scream, I tell you! I'll never see you again after this day! Oh--" It was an intense but useless struggle.
Coming home one evening about a week later, Cowperwood found Aileen humming cheerfully, and yet also in a seemingly deep and reflective mood.