If he does not marry you are ruined!" "He came over this morning," pursued Margaret.

"He wanted to marry me at once." "You should have given him no chance to change his mind again," cried Madam Bowker.

"What a trifler you are! No seriousness! Your intelligence all in the abstract; only folly and fritter for your own affairs.

You should have given him no chance to change!" Margaret closed in and struck home.

"I didn't," said she tersely.