And whatever happens, I must ask you to keep my name out of the affair altogether.

You'll do that, won't you?
Let us go back now, if you don't mind." They walked back in silence.

He looked at her once or twice, but her face was stern and rigid, and she would not give him even one glance.
At the door she gave him her hand, with a matter-of-fact "I will say good-night now," and disappeared into her room, where she threw herself on the bed and sobbed bitterly; for the truth was that she was very, very fond of him.

She, too, had built her little castles in the air as to what she would say and do when he put the momentous question.
Girls do foresee these things, somehow; although they do pretend to be astonished when the time arrives.
She had pictured him saying all sorts of endearing things, and making all sorts of loving protestations; and now it had come to this--she had been asked as if it were merely a matter of avoiding scandal.

It was too great a shock.