That was too bad of my cousin.' Rhoda, sipping her tea, had a cold, uninterested expression.
'I didn't know of this,' he proceeded, 'when we met that day in the gardens, and when I made you so angry.
'I wasn't disposed to jest about what had happened.' 'But neither was I.You quite misunderstood me.

Will you tell me how that unpleasantness came to an end ?' 'Oh yes.

I admitted that I had been ill-mannered and obstinate.' 'How delightful! Obstinate?
I have a great deal of that in my character.

All the active part of my life was one long fit of obstinacy.

As a lad I determined on a certain career, and I stuck to it in spite of conscious unfitness, in spite of a great deal of suffering, out of sheer obstinacy.