She feared she might have been to blame, and have encouraged him in her thoughtlessness, more than she ought.

"I will make him angry with me," she said to herself.
"I will treat him to ridicule.

It is the only chance, poor fellow!" "Mr.Mayford," she said, "if I thought you were in jest, I should feel it necessary to tell my father and brother that you had been impertinent.

I can only believe that you are in earnest, and I deeply regret that your personal vanity should have urged you to take such an unwarrantable liberty with a girl you have not yet known for ten days." He turned and left her without a word, and she remained standing where she was, half inclined to cry, and wondering if she had acted right on the spur of the moment--sometimes half inclined to believe that she had been unladylike and rude.

When a thing of this kind takes place, both parties generally put themselves in immediate correspondence with a confidant.