He dropped it every time I saw him that day.

Also he added the final indignity--I overheard him tell Mr.Courtney that he intended to marry me whether I liked it or not.

Now, Polly, seriously, what would you have done if anything like that had happened to you ?" Polly waited to gain her self-control.
"I'd have taken the hat away from him," she declared.
Constance sailed once more.
"I didn't think of that," she admitted.
"No, and instead here's what you've done," Polly pointed out to her: "You turned Johnny loose to look after himself, and he isn't capable of it since he fell in love; so for the last two weeks he's been as savage as any ordinary business man.

That's one thing.

For another, you've made yourself sick just pining and grieving for a sight of Johnny Gamble." "I haven't!" indignantly denied Constance, and to prove that assertion her eyes filled with tears.