You ask any stranger to sit.

I am at home here, Shiel, and I will stand." "What was it you wanted to say, Mona ?" he asked, scarcely looking at her.
"I should like to think that there was something you wished to hear," she replied.

"Don't you want to know all that has happened since you left us--about me, about your brother, about your friends, about Lammis?
I bought Lammis at the sale you ordered; it is still ours." She gave emphasis to "ours." "You may not want to hear all that has happened to me since you left, still I must tell you some things that you ought to know, if we are going to part again.

You treated me badly.

There was no reason why you should have left and placed me in the position you did." His head came up sharply and his voice became a little hard.