She forgot herself so completely that she added imperiously: "I wanted you to keep away from her until I was ready for you to go." "She sent for me," apologized he.

"I went.

We came together with a bang.
She told me I wanted to marry you; I told her YOU wanted to marry ME.
She told me I was low; I told her she was a fraud.

She said I was insolent; I said good-afternoon.

If I hadn't marched out rather quickly I guess she'd have had me thrown out." Margaret was sitting stone-still, her hands limp in her lap.
"So you see it's all up," continued he, with a curious air of bravado, patently insincere.